Wendy Clarke
Wendy Clarke (b.1944) has spent her life working prolifically with the possibilities of the medium of video, including the use of participatory video – both live and recorded – to examine interpersonal relationships. Clarke’s projects and installations have been exhibited on television, in museums, galleries, and public places.
The work has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council of the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, California Arts Council, Arts in Corrections, Camarillo State Hospital, Annenberg Center, Irvine Foundation, and California Youth Authority.
Clarke’s ongoing lifetime project is Love Tapes, portraits of people talking about their personal experiences with love. Clarke lives on her donkey farm in Taos, New Mexico.
‘If every person on the planet could make a love tape, then you’d really know what it’s like to be human’. – an astonishing collection of over 2,500 three-minute videos in which people speak to camera about what love is for them.
A project that began in 1977 documenting the experiences of marginalised women and communities in the US, artists Wendy Clarke and Kim Coleman open the work out at BFMAF inviting the creation of new tapes and a multi-perspective portrait of love.