JANET BIGGS
Seeing Constellations in the Darkness Between Stars
2018-19, single-channel HD video with sound, run time: 6:46, ed: 5 + 2AP.
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JANET BIGGS
Seeing Constellations in the Darkness Between Stars
2018-19, single-channel HD video with sound, run time: 6:46, ed: 5 + 2AP.
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JANET BIGGS
Can't Find My Way Home
2015, single-channel video installation, run time: 9:45, ed: 5.
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JANET BIGGS
The Persistence of Hope
2015, single-channel HD video with sound, run time: 7:24, ed: 5 + 2AP.
With Arctic footage from Katja Aglert's Winter Event-antifreeze, 2009 (filmed by Janet Biggs).
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JANET BIGGS
Point of No Return
2013, single-channel video, run time: 10:20, ed: 5.
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JANET BIGGS
A Step on the Sun
2012, single-channel video, run time: 9:05, ed: 5 + 2 AP.
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JANET BIGGS
Arctic Trilogy:
Fade to White, 2010, single-channel video, run time: 12:28.
Brightness All Around, 2011, single-channel video, run time: 8:36.
In the Cold Edge, 2010, single-channel video, run time: 5:29.
JANET BIGGS
Fade to White
2010, single-channel video, run time: 12:28.
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JANET BIGGS
Brightness All Around
2011, single-channel video, run time: 8:36, ed: 5.
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JANET BIGGS
In the Cold Edge
2010, single-channel video, run time: 5:29.
C-Print available.
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JANET BIGGS
Vanishing Point
2009, single-channel video, run time: 10:32, ed: 5.
C-print available.
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JANET BIGGS
How the Light Gets In
2019, performance, presented by Hyphen Hub.
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JANET BIGGS
Echo of the Unknown
Presented by Houston Public Media and Blaffer Art Museum.
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JANET BIGGS
WET EXIT
2011, performance, presented by Smack Mellon as part of the DUMBO arts festival 2011.
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Janet Biggs (b. Harrisburg, PA) is known for her work in video, photography and performance. Biggs, based in Brooklyn, NY, focuses on individuals in extreme landscapes, such as the Taklamakan desert of Western China, the Horn of Africa, the Arctic, and the Mars Desert Research station. Her work explores challenges faced by diverse groups including the Uighurs, Indonesian sulfur miners and Yemini refugees. Biggs often navigates the territory between art and science in collaborations with neuroscientists, aerospace engineers, astrophysicists and robots.
Biggs has exhibited at: Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre and the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos de Tenerife; Neuberger Museum of Art; SCAD Museum of Art; Blaffer Art Museum; Musee d'art contemporain de Montréal; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Tampa Museum of Art; Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; and the Mint Museum of Art; International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena; Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon; Vantaa Art Museum; Linkopings Konsthall, Passagen; Oberosterreichisches Landesmuseum; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museo d'arte contemporanea Roma; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Permanent collections include: La Collezione Videoinsight®; Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC), Languedoc-Roussillon; Zabludowicz Collectio; the Tampa Museum of Art: the High Museum, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Mint Museum of Art; Gibbes Museum of Art, and the New Britain Museum of Art. Awards include: 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the NEA Fellowship Award.
"In a new multi-screen video installation, Janet Biggs presents visual parallels for the profound disorientation of Alzheimer’s disease."
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"The spirit of the 19th-century explorer was alive and well in this show, “Nobody Rides for Free,” featuring two Janet Biggs videos…"
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"Leave it to Conner Contemporary to honor two seriously tough female artists."
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