Deborah Stratman (United States)

Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Her films, rather than telling stories, pose a series of problems – and through their at times ambiguous nature, allow for a complicated reading of the questions being asked. Much of her work points to the relationships between physical environments and the very human struggles for power and control that are played out on the land. Most recently, they have questioned elemental historical narratives about faith, freedom, sonic subterfuge, expansionism and the paranormal. Stratman works in multiple mediums, including sculpture, photography, drawing and audio. She has exhibited internationally at venues including the Whitney Biennial, MoMA NY, the Pompidou, Hammer Museum, Witte de With, Walker Art Center, Yerba Buena Center, and has done site-specific projects with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Temporary Services, Mercer Union (Toronto), Blaffer Gallery (Houston), Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (Yukon) and Ballroom Gallery (Marfa). Stratman’s films have been featured at numerous international festivals including Sundance, the Viennale, Full Frame, Ann Arbor, Oberhausen and Rotterdam. She is the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, a Creative Capital award, and she currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Filmography

  • Optimism
    2018
  • Xenoi
    2016
  • The Illinois Parables
    2016
  • Hacked Circuit
    2014
  • Second Sighted
    2014
  • Swallows: Subsurface Voids
    2014
  • Musical Insects
    2013
  • Immortal, Suspended
    2013
  • The Name is not the Thing named
    2012
  • Village, silenced
    2012
  • ...These Blazeing Starrs!
    2011
  • Ray’s Birds
    2010
  • Shrimp Chicken Fish
    2010
  • FF
    2010
  • Kuyenda N’kubvina
    2010
  • O'er The Land
    2009
  • The Memory
    2008
  • The Magician's House
    2007
  • It Will Die Out In The Mind
    2006
  • How Among The Frozen Words
    2005
  • Kings Of The Sky
    2004
  • Energy Country
    2003
  • In Order Not To Be Here
    2002
  • Untied
    2001
  • The BLVD
    1999
  • From Hetty To Nancy
    1997
  • On The Various Nature Of Things
    1995
  • Iolanthe
    1995
  • Waking
    1994
  • Palimpsest
    1993
  • In Flight: Day No. 2,128
    1993
  • A Letter
    1992
  • the train from l.a. to l.a.
    1992
  • Possibilities, Dilemmas
    1992
  • Upon a Time
    1991
  • My Alchemy
    1990

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