| Wynne Greenwood, who is also known for her performances as the three-girl band, Tracy and the Plastics, presents “Peas,” an exhibition of works created for our new exhibition space of Susanne Vielmetter Projects in Berlin. Drawing its name from old and re-done sayings like "eat your peas and carrots, mind your p’s and q’s and imagine whirled peas," “Peas” is a meditation on what we tell ourselves in order to be cool—to be functioning within a society. In the central video installation, Greenwood videotapes a simple, mostly non-verbal conversation with her anxiety-hijacked instincts and gut, visualized by a face drawn on her stomach. |  |
Wynne Greenwood’s “Peas” -Katharina Fichtner
Wynne Greenwood, who is also known for her performances as the three-girl band, Tracy and the Plastics, presents “Peas,” an exhibition of works created for our new exhibition space of Susanne Vielmetter Projects in Berlin.
Drawing its name from old and re-done sayings like "eat your peas and carrots, mind your p’s and q’s and imagine whirled peas," “Peas” is a meditation on what we tell ourselves in order to be cool—to be functioning within a society. In the central video installation, Greenwood videotapes a simple, mostly non-verbal conversation with her anxiety-hijacked instincts and gut, visualized by a face drawn on her stomach. This visualization of the anxious gut extends into the physical space of the gallery as a flat, painted cardboard body. The body becomes three-dimensional at the hip/uterus/vagina area and houses a video monitor playing a second video, which shows the little “Peas” gathering around the symbol of motherhood. With its whimsically cardboard cut-out figure and the flickering image of the projection, the installation implies the low-tech character of a high-school theater.
In her new installation, Wynne Greenwood continues her exploration of existential and constructed notions of “the self,” which she began with her performances as Tracy and the Plastics. In the girly-punk-rock-band the artist personified all three musicians herself—and here she projects a second self onto her body.
In addition, Greenwood is showing the video New Report, a collaboration with K8 Hardy, which records a recent performance in “Media Burn,” an exhibition at the Tate Modern. New Report, a story for the fictitious feminist news channel, WKRH News, broadcasts Henry Stein-Acker-Hill and Henry Irigaray, two news reporters. They uncover stories from a feminist viewpoint at once hilarious, mocking and serious, and then proceed to lay bare the absurdities of the news machine.
Wynne Greenwood’s work has been recently presented in solo exhibitions and performances at institutions such as The Moore Space, Miami; at Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, New York, and at The Kitchen, New York, a presentation curated by Debra Singer and Sacha Yanow. Wynne Greenwood will be included in the Moscow Biennale 2007, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
