Valerie Garlick
 
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Feedback, 2008, video, 3:50 minutes.

'You've got a Pix or Flix message - vzpix'?

'There's nothing easy about it. We get on airplanes. You have to be willing to get on one, plain and simple. 'And we Skype - it's boring, but it's true. We don't even sit in front of the computer. The other day, I was cleaning, he was cleaning. 'We couldn't see each other - we were just scrubbing away and talking like we were in the same room.'

     

All by myself, 2008, video, 3:19 minutes.

The same slasher films that punish teens for drinking always have a young woman who challenges the notion of women as victims. Even if you go back to "Psycho," the protagonist, a woman, gets killed halfway through the film, but she's also an assertive woman who steals money; she stakes control of her destiny. And who steps in to fill in for her when she’s killed? Her sister.

 

             

Under My Skin, 2007, video, 2:46 minutes.

It is one of a series of videos Garlick has made interpreting old love songs in unconventional ways. Playing off an old recording of Cole Porter's "I've Got you Under My Skin," Garlick—lipstick-bright lips in a pout—acts out a pantomime of clinical romantic obsession. Shot using green screen technology and with her image edited in front of a postcard beach scene, Garlick scratches off her "skin," actually a layer of dried Elmer's glue.

                             

Cakesitter, 2007, video, 4:50 minutes.

A wet and messy sploshing fetish is reinterpreted through domestic performance with Eileen Barton’s “If I Knew You Were Coming, I’d a Baked a Cake.”

 

 

     

 All There Is, 2007, video, 4:22 minutes.

This song has been covered by assorted artists, including Chaka Khan,Giant Sand, Sandra Bernhard, P.J. Harvey, Alan Price, The Bobs, and Firewater.Bette Midler covered this song for her Peggy Lee tribute album Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook. This song was again performed by both Nathan Lane and Dianne Reeves during Sex and the City season 5, episode 74, in 2002.

 

 

 

                             

Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows, 2007, video, 3:00 minutes.

Parents are raising safety concerns about placing pins into the hands of children, the U.K. Daily Mail reported Monday. In Britain, sales of the traditional party game have been outpaced by the pinata at a ratio of six to 4, according to the website. Some parents, however, maintain that the pinata, which calls for kids to batter candy-filled objects with a hammer or baseball bat, is a more dangerous activity.