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BIO BA, Film + Video Production, Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, CA, 2005. Alanna photographs herself. Her images are cathartic responses to ideas, relationships and emotionally charged situations. Currently she is in the process of developing new work dealing with endurance, tension and sexuality by performing for a motion picture camera. Her photo series, Cringe, recreates moments of intense self-criticism, disgust and shame in intimate self-portraits. Everything I can do you can do better recreates iconic and personally significant images of her art-heroes-- the likes of Bruce Nauman, David Bowie, Wolfgang Tillmans and Klaus Nomi. As C + A Projects, Alanna works in collaboration with Carolyn Radlo in both video and photography. The pair deal with social and political situations communicated through sparse text and evocative imagery. They like to work with words, images, and meaning without necessarily relying on narrative or linearity. Many of their projects focus on the exchange of ideas between them, the differences and similarities that show up in their work made side by side, but always guided and supported by chance. Their life-long, multi-faceted collaboration has evolved over the years from mother-daughter to artist-artist. Their most recent video, This Is The Place, is a meditation on the location which held the time after a death, the complicated emotions surrounding that event, and letting go. Lost off the coast of Brazil since 2008, postcards from their Conversations collaboration can now be purchased online. Other previous collaborations include creating the video elements for Seth Eisen's solo performance Blackbird, as well as a video project based on dreams with Heather Lucas, Films That My Mind Makes. In Los Angeles, Alanna performed with The People's Microphony Camerata, a project founded by Elana Mann and Juliana Snapper to explore the emergent phenomena of the People's Microphone and ideas of radical receptivity through sound, voice, and the body. She also co-founded the Los Angeles chapter of the Wanderers Union, an urban exploration society inspired to develop a deep knowledge of distance and terrain in the metropolis through organized long-distance wanders. She is a member of the Chicago chapter of the Degenderettes, a friendly international feminist and genderqueer agitpop club. For two years in San Francisco, she edited Ten Minutes to Midnight, an art blog introducing readers to new artists and exhibitions. In a former life, Simone co-founded The Harmony Project, a music program in Santa Barbara, CA teaching mediation and conflict resolution techniques to at-risk youth through composing and performing. Her earliest curatorial project was The Harbinger, an independent zine of artwork, short fiction and poetry which she self-published starting at the age of 15. Alanna has curated an extended series screening and exhibiting the work of artists using the moving image called MIA [Moving Image Art]. The program presented regular screenings at the Armory in Pasadena, CA and at Comfort Station Logan Square in Chicago, IL. For more information about the MIA series and the artists inlcuded, please visit the website: http://miascreen.com EXHIBITIONS: video, KROWSWORKERSWORK Krowswork, Oakland, CA video, Water, Water Everywhere Allegheny College, Meadville, PA video, Water, Water Everywhere Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV video, Water, Water Everywhere Alexei von Schlippe Gallery at the University of Connecticut-Avery Point, Groton, CT video, ANFORTAS curated by Sarah Knobel, Outer Gallery, Montana State University Billings, Billings, MT video, Animal's Planet curated by Lili White, AXW/online, New York, NY video, FILMIDEO 2014: day 3 curated by Amanda Thackray and Karl Erickson, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ video, Various aspects of COLOR, Festival Miden 10th Edition, ARTWALL Project Space, Athens, Greece video, Various aspects of COLOR, curated by: Margarita Stavraki, Festival Miden 10th Edition, Kalamata's Historic Center, Kalamata, Greece video, Water, Water Everywhere, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX video, PoetryFilm at O Miami Poetry Festival, curated by Malgorzata Kitowski, O Miami, Miami, FL video, 5th Cairo Video Festival 2nd edition, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt video, GAZE #7: Generation Loss, ATA (Artists Television Access), San Francisco, CA video, Paradise Found, curated by Mark French and Toby Tatum, Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings, UK video, 5th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt video, Water, Water Everywhere, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA video, PoetryFilm Equinox: Circles, Cycles, Sequences, Planets, Patterns, curated by Malgorzata Kitowski, Charlotte Street Hotel Cinema, London, UK video, Water, Water Everywhere, MIA at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 2012video, Favorites from AXWFF, curated by Lili White, MIA at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA video, Nurture the Environment Festival, The Expo Art Center, Long Beach, CA video, Water, Water Everywhere, Upez African Humanitarian Development Projects, Lagos, Nigeria video, The Picnic and other short films, Peralta Junction, Oakland, CA video, Sustainability Day Water, Water, Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource, Boedecker Theater and Naropa University, Boulder, CO performance, People's Microphony Songbook celebration, the Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA video, Annual 24-Hour Video Art Festival, Gallery 479, UC Santa Barbara, CA video, Shaped by Water featuring Water, Water, Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource, The History Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA performance, Radiobreak, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA video, Masters on Main Street, Catskill Film and Video Festival, Catskill Community Theater, Catskill, NY 2011video installation, Yehudhith and THE GRANDFATHERS, CIIS (California Institute of Integral Studies), San Francisco, CA video, Another Experiment By Women Film Festival, The Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY video, AND Shorts, Abandon Normal Devices Festival, The Box at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK video installation, Summer of Video Art: Oakland Video Vague, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA video, EyeAM: Another Experiment by Women @ Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY video, No Dialogue @ ArtPadSF, San Francisco, CA photocards, Papergirl Glasgow 2011, Glasgow, Scotland PUBLICATIONS: TALKS + INTERVIEWS: PROFESSIONAL: CURATORIAL: solo screening, The Motherhood Archives - Irene Lusztig, MIA, Armory, Pasadena, CA solo screening, The Motherhood Archives - Irene Lusztig, MIA, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL 2014 group screening, Imaginal Fiction, MIA, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL group screening, Imaginal Fiction, MIA, Armory, Pasadena, CA group screening, Peak-End, MIA, Armory, Pasadena, CA group screening, Peak-End, MIA, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL solo exhibition, Paul Barrios, MIA in residence at Outpost@Armory, Armory, Pasadena, CA solo exhibition, Vienne Chang, MIA in residence at Outpost@Armory, Armory, Pasadena, CA solo exhibition, Andrew Ellis Johnson, MIA in residence at Outpost@Armory, Armory, Pasadena, CA group pop-up exhibition, ArtNight Pasadena, MIA, Armory, Pasadena, CA solo exhibition, Evelin Stermitz, MIA in residence at Outpost@Armory, Armory, Pasadena, CA 2013 group screening, Moments in Time, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group screening, Lucid Streaming, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA solo screening, Peter Bo Rappmund, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group screening, Limbic Resonance, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group pop up exhibition, Earth & Arts Festival, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group screening, Attentional Shift, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group pop up exhibition, ArtNight Pasadena, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group screening, Same Ocean, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group screening, Winged Host, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 2012 group exhibition, Black Friday, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group screening, Not Applicable, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group pop up exhibition, ArtNight Pasadena, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group screening, Human Animal, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group screening, Endless Plain, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group screening, Strange Loop, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group screening, Imperium Naturae, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA group pop up exhibition, Make Music Festival, MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
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