LEAH SINGER 
is curious about and interested in working with other people
moved from Canada to New York in the Eighties, where she began to work more and
more with 16mm film
is a multimedia artist
has two sons
likes on the ‘Bob the Builder’ website the gender equality of the
characters and thinks the games are well designed for kids to do
is the all-time favourite collaborator of Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth
has made several books with her partner Lee Ranaldo such as ‘Moroccan Journal
, Bookstore and ‘Road Movies’
followed in the footsteps of luminaries like William S. Burroughs, Brian Jones,
Brion Gysin, Paul Bowles and Ornette Coleman, when she journeyed to Jajouka,
Morocco with Lee Ranaldo
moves fluidly between the roles of artist, lover, mother and friend
finds inspiration for her work in Dick Bruna’s ‘Miffy’ drawings,
when she’s looking through the books and website with her child
has brown hair cut in a way that, although not as short, makes me think of Jean
Sehberg
made the Copy Project, a mini-site based on the silhouettes in her self published
newspapers called copy, in collaboration with the web designers of Spill
was inspired, for her monochrome silhouettes, by the discarded rubyliths she
collected while archiving the photographic collection of the New York Daily News
the silhouette images evoke a residue of the anonymous stream of images encountered
in daily urban life; images which are immediately forgotten but are always vaguely
familiar when one sees them again
lives in New York, close to where the World Trade Center once stood
is between 30 and 40 years old
began to shoot16mm cine-film in a 35mm stills camera, in the late ‘80’s,
creating fragmented sequences and jumpy cadences with a sculptural quality
and by introducing projectors allowing for manipulation of speed, rhythm and
film-rate she created a ‘live’ performance style much like a DJ scratching
records
the Copy Project consists of a succession of images which work like characters
in a story which invite you to project your own narrative onto them
has collaborated with musicians such as Elliott Sharp, Ikue Mori and Lee Ranaldo,
producing live settings for concerts and music videos
and has collaborated with the Russian conceptual artists Komar and Melamid in
theatre productions
likes the pictures Stefano Giovanni takes and the way he captures the people
she knows
created live film projections for a concert by Lee Ranaldo and Rafael Toral in
Porto in February 2003 and Paulo Feliciano contributed video projections to the
performance
showed film work on two screens at a concert given at UCLA by Kevin Drumm and
Lee Ranaldo, in March 2002
likes to wear big sunglasses
created film projections for a concert by Lee Ranaldo and David Grubbs at the
Centre Pompidou on May 27th 2000, as part of the exhibition ‘Elysian Fields’,
curated by Purple
did a live performance at the Thread Waxing Space in New York City in 1998, manipulating
black and white Super-8 footage on variable-speed Eumig projectors, with footage
shot in 1992 in Pisa and Cesena, Italy, during a Sonic Youth and Pavement tour
participated in the Spoken Word Festival in Stockholm in 1998
travels alot
made the video ‘Close To You’ for a project called ‘The Empty
Orchestra Café’, organized by the New York artist Perry Hoberman
has used basic colours such as black, red, magenta, yellow and blue for her silhouettes
along with more muted greens and oranges
her multiples and books are for sale at printedmatter.org and she admires the
publications made in small runs by artists
her bag designs are for sale at the Neon Gallery website
lives a hectic life
doesn’t really know the music of Koell but just liked the calm zen like
effect of her site.
listens to everything from Glen Gould piano music to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
likes to spend time talking and laughing with friends
published a beautiful silhouette of a man and a woman fencing, in issue 0006
of Arkitip magazine
found a soul-mate in life and work in her partner Lee Ranaldo
shot the images for her video ‘Here’ in Southern California, Las
Vegas, Death Valley and Asbury Park, New Jersey, using her technique of loading16mm
film into a 35 mm stills camera, which produced a stop-start-moving-still journey
through some of the parched and forgotten landscapes of America
sometimes visits remote ghost towns where she likes the simultaneous experience
of nothingness and history
is generous to friends in letting them stay in her house whether she’s
there or not
likes the work of the artist Niki de Saint-Phalle and, like her, besides making
her own work, collaborates and assists in projects with her partner
made the music video for ‘The Last Temptation of Susan’, in which
the video is cut to the rhythm of the music so as to create a visual equivalent
to the song, which works even when the sound is turned off
finds much of her inspiration in the New York music scene she’s involved
in, as well as in the experience of daily city life
uses the sound of a helicopter at the beginning and the end of the Copy Project,
which immediately evokes memories of New York and other big American cities
made a billboard image of a silhouette of two girls in profile touching their
blown-up bubble-gum as if kissing, for a non profit community collective in Los
Angeles
published silhouette drawings in The Ganzfeld magazine, and likes the magazine
for the way it places design, illustration, comics, and picture stories alongside
essays, in a historical and critical context
May 30, 2004 performed
in the British pop event ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ in
April 2004, curated this year by Sonic Youth performed
in ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ in April 2004 - something
she has in common with Joe Baisa from Sacharine Trust was
invited by Nike to create a runners’ map as part of the lead-up to
the 2001 New York City Marathon, on the basis of her newspaper publications did
a billboard on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles for Sigerson Morrison, the
shoe company uses
the same kind of images in different contexts and doesn’t think the
differences between categories of art such as applied art or autonomous
art matter that much has
an interest in newspaper publications which led her to self-publish ‘Copy’ in
1997, a graphics-only newspaper featuring silhouettes. her
live, manipulated film performances have taken her all over the world to
places like the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf in November 2003 and Vancouver
in April 2004, where she performs alongside musicians, including her husband
Lee Ranaldo
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