Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

Over fifty years ago in the United States, thirteen female pilots were tested to see if they were capable of going into space as astronauts. The program was cancelled prematurely, but this medical experiment became a call for two of them, Jerrie Cobb and Janey Hart, to petition for a Congressional Hearing in an attempt to change the requirements so that women could become astronauts alongside their male counterparts. Huong Ngo and Or Zubalsky took this act of resistance as a departure point for their album and film, "Shadows Making Shadows." These videos, which combine appropriated period footage with newly shot 8mm film, serve as a love letter to these thirteen women and a contemporary reflection on systems that exclude specific bodies from representing our future.

Hương Ngô is an artist and educator, born in Hong Kong, and based in Paris, FR and Brooklyn, NY. Her work, often collaborative and performance-based, has been supported by the New Museum, Rhizome, LMCC, The Kitchen, EFA Project Space, iLAND, CulturePush, Eyebeam, Tate Modern, Vox Populi, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Museum in Prague. She is a part of the collective Fantastic Futures, is a recent Whitney Independent Study Program Fellow, and earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Or Zubalsky a programmer, artist, musician, and collaborator. He is a lover of sound, listening, collaboration, open source, questions, language, exchange, walking, and low technology. He is also a part of the collectives Fantastic Futures and Trade School, and music projects Juviley and The Youngest.