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Michelle Handelman interview, 2023 April 21, 2023 April 21

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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.10.40

Dates

  • Creation: 2023 April 21

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English Latin

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Biographical / Historical

Michelle Handelman uses video, live performance and photography to make confrontational works that explore the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness.



Her background is a study in opposites–raised during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Handelman split her time between Chicago, where her mother was a fixture in the art world, and Los Angeles, where her father was a player in the counterculture sex industry.



Over the years Handelman has voraciously traversed both these worlds, developing a body of work that investigates ways of looking at the forbidden and revealing dark, subconscious layers of outsider agency.

Existence and Location of Copies

View this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0QlbRSNEE5A?si=-qpCo0I9qhKgcAOX

General

Michelle Handelman uses video, live performance and photography to make confrontational works that explore the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness.



Her background is a study in opposites–raised during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Handelman split her time between Chicago, where her mother was a fixture in the art world, and Los Angeles, where her father was a player in the counterculture sex industry.



Over the years Handelman has voraciously traversed both these worlds, developing a body of work that investigates ways of looking at the forbidden and revealing dark, subconscious layers of outsider agency.

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Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and FIT Archive Repository

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