A. L. Steiner (born 1967 in

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) is an American

multimedia artist Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. This is in contrast to tradition ...

, author and educator, based in

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, New York."The art of communication, an interview with A. L. Steiner."
I'm Yours website. Accessed 23 March 2014. Her solo and collaborative art projects use constructions of

photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi ...

, installation,

collage Collage (, from the , "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assembly of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pasti ...

, and

performance A performance is an act or process of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function. Performance has evolved glo ...

. Steiner's art incorporates

queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...

and

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elements. She is a collective member of the musical group

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; and, along with

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, is a co-curator/co-founder of Ridykeulous, a curatorial project that encourages the exhibitions of queer and feminist art.

Biography

A. L. Steiner was born in 1967 in

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, Florida. Steiner received a

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in 1989 in

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from

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. Steiner was Visiting Assistant Professor and M.F.A. Program Director the Roski School of Art and Design,

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in 2014. In 2016, she was appointed Critic at the

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and currently serves as the school's Senior Critic in Film/Video. She is also faculty in Bard College's MFA photography program. Steiner is the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2017), the 2015–2016

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, and the 2015

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grant.

Art work

''More real than reality itself'' (2014)

''More real than reality itself'' was a "multichannel video installation" for the

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of 2014. The piece aimed to examine political activism and documentary films, especially their use of linear narratives. The film was originally exhibited alongside the installation ''Cost-benefit analysis,'' a "collage of images of bodies and the environments they inhabit that amplifies the exchanges and encounters staged in the film." Steiner said of the piece,

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a conduit to viewing other subjective histories
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a platform for questioning intentionality and the relationship
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documentary or archival forms - a fragile and precarious place for both the object and subject.

''Community action center'' (2010)

From 2007 to 2010, A. L. Steiner and A. K. Burns composed ''Community Action Center''. It is a sixty-nine-minute socio-sexual video which utilizes erotics to express the personal sexual and political lives of the people in their community, with a largely queer focus. The video was filmed in

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and

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. In 2013, Burns and Steiner took the video on a fourteen city, ten state screening tour entitled ''Community Action Center or BUST!: The X-Cuntry Summer Tour.'' The tour culminated in October 2013, with an evening performance at

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, New York. The video was accompanied by live performances by Justin Vivian Bond, Nick Hallett, Sam Miller,

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, and other artists from the ''Community Action Center'' soundtrack.

''Greater New York'' (2010)

Steiner was one of 68 artists to participate in MoMA PS1's quinquennial exhibition, ''Greater New York''. Her contribution, entitled ''Angry, Articulate, Inevitable'', consisted of a collage of Steiner's photographs spanned across several walls.

''1 Million Photos, 1 Euro Each (minimum order)'' (2005)

''1 million Photos, 1 Euro Each'' is a wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling collage installed at the John Connelly Presents' project room. It consists of photographs (mostly of women but also of men) and sexual nature shots of varying size. There is also a small television playing a rapid-fire,

stop-action Stop-motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking and special effects technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhib ...

loop of the photographs on the wall and others, with text (often the title of the work) between them.

Activism

W.A.G.E.

A. L. Steiner is a co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) a New York-based activist group founded in 2008. W.A.G.E advocates that artists, performers and independent curators working with US institutions should be compensated for their work.

Permanent collections

* "Untitled (Alex Eating Berries)", Photography, The

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* The Marieluise Hessel collection *

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"A. L. Steiner."
MOMA website. Accessed 23 March 2014.

References

External links

Official website for A. L. Steiner.

W.A.G.E.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Steiner, A. L. 1967 births Living people 21st-century American women artists Artists from Miami George Washington University alumni