Name | Taryn FitzGerald

Country | USA

DOB | 1962.06.24

Email | taryn@rur.com

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Statement | Taryn FitzGerald

Over the Rainbow, 7'00 min, 2001
Playing with ideas about identity and refraction, Over the Rainbow combines expansive images of mirrored rainbows and waterfalls with answering machine messages from people responding to an ad for 'look-alikes' ie: "People say I look like Fidel Castro, but I'm a
lot shorter and I don't smoke cigars", or "I'm the prototypical brunette; I remind everyone I've ever met of someone. Call me."

Look-alike #8: Robert DeNiro, 2'21min, 2002
Look-alikes, is a series of short video portraits exploring the psyches of everyday people who consider themselves look-alikes to the stars or who are often mistaken for them. Looking at individual identity within our culture's preoccupation with celebrity, the series focuses on notions of image and reality, the visible
and the invisible, as well as the complex negotiation between self-acceptance and self-alienation. All participants responded to the following ad placed in the 'Village Voice': Do 'you look familiar'? Do people say you remind them of friends, co-workers, celebrities? If so, call Taryn for interesting project.

My current project, explores the collective enterprise of creating "living history", within a contemporary American landscape. It consists of a series of photographs and moving images documenting reenactment events in their original locations, from this country's early wars, including the American Revolution. My interest in reenactment stems from a desire to seek out unique forms society provides for identification and self-expression, and to open up discussion about how we, as a people, remember our history.