Jane Jerardi

Jane Jerardi

Jane Jerardi is a performer, choreographer, and artist working in time-based media. Moving fluidly between disciplines, her projects have appeared in a variety of venues -- from galleries to listening booths in a record shop, on a public bus at a street festival, as an outdoor video installation, as well as on stage.  At the heart of her practice remains a connection to audiences that encourages exchange, with the desire to value a generative impulse that instigates others' creativity.  Read more... 

projects / portfolio

I've created work for a variety of contexts –- from theaters and galleries to record store listening booths, public subway escalators and projected videos –- constructing pieces that often move fluidly between media. My most recent body of work includes a durational performance piece with interactive video, an audio walk, and a video installation. Several projects are outlined in my portfolio...

Walk With Me

Walk with Me was a site-specific piece made for individual audience members in downtown Chicago. This work used the conceit of a series of voicemail messages left for the audience member, via an mp3 player, from a character who once lived in the city.

Each audience member walks through a park and eventually travels to the upper floors of a nearby building, looking out onto the street, which they just traversed, seeing others experience the same walk...

Distant

Distant (2010) relies on mixed media and invites viewer interaction. A drafting table appears lit from above by video projections.  After sitting down, the viewer becomes drawn in to the surface of soft, white flour.  Moving the flour reveals hand written prose on thin tracing paper.  The stream of conscious writing shifts between travel, relationships, and longing.  As the flour is moved, the video from above shifts across the desk.  The video traces an abstract, perhaps imaginary, map that traverses the shifting topography -- namely, the flour that the viewer has moved with his or her fingers. Across the gallery a journal appears in a folio case. Attached by a thin black cord, the folio case contains an inset video of another shifting landscape.

View stills from the installation.