1. “Digitally Manipulated Self Portrait” Series Archival Digital Print 43″ x 48″ Ltd. Ed. of 10 2002
2. “A Condemned Opera” 11/19/2005 Bergamot Station Track 16 Los Angeles, CA
Technology dances within our fabrication like a continuous ballet that will destroy the clarity of reality. This constant change alters our mind and confuses our sense of consciousness. It is an elevator reaching no destination, an opera with no direction. I created a digital environment using two contrasting elements. One was the theme of beauty and elegance represented by the costume I wore and the 1900’s chandelier. The other contrasting component was the conventional and grimy utility elevator. I constructed a light box with an image containing the knobs off an old elevator. Three projected images of an elevator going up and down were projected onto a nine-foot plexi glass box. The performance included me holding a children’s toy that expanded and contracted. Inside the toy were two small cameras that connected to two monitors on the outside of the plexi glass box. There was a continuous sound of an elevator going up and down. The performance and the installation were constantly moving and changing. Sound Design by Joseph Bishara Duration: Continuous
3. “I Can’t Predict the Future of a Past I Never Lived.” performance
7/22/2005 Photo San Francisco, Brown Bag Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 6/11/2005 Bluespace Hollywood, CA
We cannot believe everything that we read. History is written from someone’s perspective. I created a video of a constant changing stain glass window. This image was projected in the back of me. I toke white apples that looked like eggs, out of a birdcage. I bite into each of the apples and spit out red feathers. This entire image was projected onto a book that lay upon a wooden stand. The viewer thought that it was a pre-recorded image but in reality it was a live performance.
4. “Plastic Rape” performance 5/2004 Gallery 4016 Los Angeles, CA
What happens when the past collides with the present which changes our future? Are we so transparent when a violent act has haunted our being? “Plastic Rape,” is an auto-biographical piece that deals with the past, present, and future. The first installation includes the following items: suspended razor, lights and scissors. A performer named Blayne plays opposite of me. She is dressed in a foam nun’s hat and wears tape over her body. She represents the perception of the future and what I hope to achieve in my subconscious. I offer the scissors and the razor to demonstrate that I choose to come to terms with the past and am able to change. Blayne continues to shave my head in a ritualistic manner to represent the present.
When the hair reaches the ground it becomes the past that is peeled away. When the act is done, I run behind a tarp. The tarp drops to the ground and the second portion of this performance begins. A 15ft video projection is projected on two large pieces of foam. The projection is of a mechanical landscape with heavy steam. This landscape is to portray the mechanical gears of change. The steam is th e cleansing of the soul. In front of this projection, I am suspended inside a plastic bubble, 10ft off the ground. I twist and turn inside the bubble to portray an embryo, a new beginning.
5. “RAW WAR” performance Lightbox and DVD Video Documentation of performance piece at Farmani Gallery 2005
6. “Sea of Gold” “The Golden City” Series Self Portrait Archival Digital Print 9″ x 12″ Ltd. Ed. of 5 2004
7. “Under Water Series” “My Hand” Self Portrait Archival Digital Print 9″ x 12″ Ltd. Ed. of 5 2004
8. “A Written Dream” performance
12/31/2005 Sea of Dreams Los Angeles Theatre Los Angeles,
CA 12/14/2005 Pool Trade Show Private Event Los Feliz, CA
12/08/2005 FAR (Fine Art Resources) Los Angeles, CA
What happens when I share my dreams with the other?
Dreams became reality or reality shaped my dreams.
I wrote a stream
of consciousness, like a written dream… I first created a dress made of lights, foam and plastic. The wig made of rubber is reminiscent of French decadence in the 1700’s. I wanted the piece to have a sense of time but not a time period. While white furniture was hung upside down in a world with atypical rules. There was a video projection of water while I was typing on
a suspended typewriter. I would drop the papers onto the ground. The viewer could pick up the papers and read the contents.
Conscious vs. Subconscious
9. “Annilation of Nexus”
This piece was about the separation of body from the mind. The television screen is what is inside the artists mind. It is a psychological piece that expresses how technology is a mind-altering state that we deal with day to day. The speakers, connected to the television screen were projecting the sound.
10. “Odalisque” video installation, displayed on framed LCD Screen Ltd. Ed. of 100 2001
Here are some great images of Tiffany Trenda’s Art…There is a Thought Provoking Interview with Tiffany Trenda on our other blog, SPRAYBLOG
