By re-editing sounds and images derived from a wide variety of sources, Animal Charm scrambles media codes, creating a kind of tic-ridden, convulsive montage, their disruptive gestures often re-investing conventional forms with subversive meanings.
Animal Charm dives the dumpsters of film and video production companies and scraps through countless hours of industrial documentary and corporate footage, often editing the tapes in a live mix session before an audience. They have been compared to the Tape Beatles and other groups experimenting in live video scratching and film looping performances in environments ranging from private parties and night clubs to media arts centers and museums.
Comprised of Jim Fetterley and Rich Bott, Animal Charm's tapes are mind-bendingly inventive experiments in uncanny, surreal montage that defy logical analysis. [Their work] is a tour de force of incongruous juxtapositions, startling dislocations and ingenious visual rhymes assembled from the banal detritus of late night TV." --Gavin Smith, 1998 New York Video Festival.
Animal Charm have been visiting artists and guest lecturers at a variety of high schools, universities and multimedia festivals. Each presentation provides a specific context for discussion of the work in relationship to technology and mass media.
rich@animalcharm.com
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Animal Charm in the Night
Video and Audio Performance
Program: InterActions
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