GONDOLA RIDE KIT

For all of those people who frequent Venice and yearn for a new experience in the old city, this site-specific book offers a perfect diversion. It is to be read in a gondola.

The Gondola Ride Kit is a brochure that encourages its reader to delve into an intensely sensorial and possibly infernal experience, while being a passenger on a gondola. For example, he passenger should feel the humid chill of winter, smell the algae, fear the silence, and watch out for Minos while in the Venetian byways.

The kit’s edition of 2000 is available by sending a personal check made out to the artist, Irene Woodbury, for US$10 per copy to the following address: C.P. 74 30124 Rialto Venezia ITALY. Please include an address for shipment. Upon receipt of the check, the kit will be sent Air Mail. Allow 10-20 days for delivery.

OUR VOICE AT THE BRINK OF THE NEW MILLENIUM

This piece synthesizes the various art forms of dance, voice, and visual art to make an artist’s book which contemplates the possibilities of the third millennium. This unique accordion-bound book gathers gesture lines inspired by dance choreography, marries them with text written in many languages by volunteers and a vocal improvisation, recorded onto compact disk by Barbara Valentino.

Our Voice a the Brink of the New Millennium, an art object and performance, collates different languages as phrases which refer to dance, visual art and music under the umbrella of human experience. Man and the Millennium are captured in this piece.
An improvisational dance performance, which will complete the cycle of artistic improvisations, will be held in June, 2002 in Venice. Consult the Performance page for more information about the event.

Edition of 200, 1999-2000
9 1/2" x 7 1/4" x 1/2" laser prints, CD
$250

WE-TWEAKED

This edition asks the viewer to look at her distorted image through reflective paper while watching the artist’s self-portrait get "tweaked" by various single Photoshop effects that are featured on each of 6 pages. Man created computers that now manipulate us in return. This is represented in the book by using the premier distortion program, Photoshop, and distorted photographic paper. The balance of power is beginning to change from us programming and controlling the computer, to the computer overpowering us with its extraordinary "thinking" and distorting capabilities.

The book is sealed in a black envelope by a white adhesive strip with the book’s title.

Edition of 250, 1998
2" x 4" photocopies, Kodak special effects paper
$16

PARLERA’

People’s words, dialogue and ideas, considered abstractly, have color and form. Dante’s portrait begins a 12 page series of 12 characters, who literally converse only in colors and shapes. They are a combination of famous and anonymous people, clipped and photocopied from Italian newspapers. The accordion-fold format allows them to "talk" in page spread intervals or as one continuous conversational scene.

Edition of 100, 2001
4" x 5" x 1/2"
$35