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Indepth Arts News: "Ignatz' Nose Travels to Rice Art Gallery in New Installation by Martha Burgess" 2000-11-10 until 0000-00-00 Rice Unversity Art Gallery Houston, TX, USA
Ignatz mouse, the character named in the series title, is a reference and homage to renowned cartoonist George Herriman and his cartoon strip Krazy Kat, a favorite of Burgess’s childhood. What really drew me to it she says was that Krazy Kat himself, or herself, was constantly changing genders. Ambiguous sexuality – and a wry sense of humor -- are also evident in the objects Burgess chooses for her color-saturated photographic still lifes, which come to life on her CD ROM. At offbeat computer stations, visitors can relax and glide the mouse over pictures that dissolve into new images, whose surprising meanings are revealed through animated sequences, sound tracks, video clips, poems, jokes and interactive stories. Drawing on diverse sources ranging from art history, Chinese history, linguistics, feminist and queer studies, and popular culture, as well as her own personal experiences, Burgess describes her work as treading somewhere between the archive and the kitchen sink.
Because of adult subject matter, parental guidance is recommended.
About the Artist
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