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"Little Black Dress" - 2008
Little Black Dress is a study in self-expression, fashion, the body, the self and society.
This a three-artist collaborative project by Suzanne , video artist Niki Nolin and poet and sound artist Sherry Antonini. The project is a room-size multimedia installation consisting of a forest of small figures surrounded by text, sound and video. It features over 100 sculptures, each in the form of a womans torso, each standing atop a 48-inch tall flexible steel rod. The sculptures are doll-sized, all black and, at first glance, all the same. Yet each is made of different materials: tree roots, barbed wire, condoms, band-aids, pearls etc., thus no two are alike.
They are fetish figures, at once, humorous and angry, stylish and sad....more |
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"A Look at Chaos" - 2005-2007
I have always been fascinated by the Caryatids, those pillar like women who hold up the Museum of Science and Industry. This collaboration between myself, media artist Niki Nolin and poet and musician, Sherry Antonini has resulted in a room-sized sculpture/video/poetry installation that includes 5 life-sized carved and assembled 21st. century caryatids supporting three video monitors, along with photographic images, walls of poetry and projections.
The original Caryatids were priestesses of Artemis and represented the pillars of wisdom or "mothers" of society. Each of my sculptures have DVD players mounted on their heads featuring three Chicago dancers. The movements of the dancers in the video are symbolic of the work women have been doing for centuries: folding the tents, packing the bags, sweeping up after the wars....more
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"Surveillance" - 2005
Made shortly after the death of my mother, this piece deals with issues of privacy and secrecy; both personal and societal. The DVD player fits inside of a very large carving of an ear and features images of a moving eye. I wrote the poem, entitled, "My Mother kept Secrets"....more
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"The Choice" - 2004, was the first project Niki Nolin and I worked on together. Since she is a multi-faceted media artist and we were long time Columbia College colleagues, it was the beginning of a collaboration that has happily continued for years. The images on the video deal with the disintegration of the environment; both the physical and ultimately, the cultural as well. The carved hands in front of
the DVD can be manually opened or shut-allowing the viewer the choice of looking or not....more
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"Download This" - 2005
Installation by Suzanne Cohan-Lange & Richard Lange
“Download This” was part of 1+1= ONE 2006, a series of site specific environmental art installations created by teams of artists held at La Prairie Museum and Park in La Porte, IN. Working with environmentalist Lynn Waters (then director of the Solid Waste District of La Porte Country) we created a 60ft. long installation built of discarded monitors, keyboards, printers, telephones, etc. Many of the monitors included vinyl text featuring facts about electronic waste such as “In California more than 6000 computers become obsolete every day.”
“Download This” =1 days worth of E-trash from one county in America!..... more photos
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"Conversations Across the Pond" - 2003
Installation by Suzanne Cohan-Lange & Richard Lange
"Conversations" was created on a pond in LaPorte, IN.
shortly after the Kyoto Accords. We built 8 chairs,
each 10 ft. tall, and each painted in the colors of
the world's flags.
The chairs, of course, were so tall, it was impossible
to sit in them and although they all faced each other
around the pond, there was no way to hold a real
conversation- much like our President had essentially
removed America from the conversation in Kyoto..... more photos
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