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Greatest Hits

Author

Annelies Kamen

Birth year

1988

Place of birth

United States
Boston

Year of creation

2018

Information on media/technique

single-channel video, 7:02 min

Section

Video

More information

annelieskamen.com

Video link

https://vimeo.com/289819111

Biennale

25th Gabrovo Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art

Short description

Greatest Hits draws upon an archive of onomatopoetic ‘sound effects’ from comic strips published in Mad magazine between 1957 and 1988. This work is a collaboration with Almut Schwacke, a Berlin-based Foley artist, who created each sound effect for the video. The effects were generated using only the recording of sound produced by physical objects – without the use of sound libraries or digital sound production. Greatest Hits drags these comic-strip sound effects and their precipitating events from the unreal comic realm into a represented reality, and centers the legitimacy of female fools in response to a genre that often excludes female contributors.

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