Armory DigitalForum presents Strange Relations

The Armory Center for the Arts and One Colorado present Strange Relations, the third installment of Armory DigitalForum, an ongoing program of art videos screened outdoors in the open spaces at One Colorado. Strange Relations includes six recent videos by five emerging artists and will be shown nightly beginning March 9, from 6-11 p.m., opening with a reception coinciding with Pasadena ArtNight.  The One Colorado Courtyard is located between Colorado Boulevard, Union Street, Fair Oaks Avenue, and DeLacey Street.

Strange Relations consists of contemporary videos that evoke the challenges, complexities, and humor that often define human relationships. Featuring work by Brian Bress, Silvia Gruner, Cynthia Hooper, May Jong, and Laura Riboli.  

Cynthia Hooper’s continuing fascination with the growing neighborhoods of Tijuana, Mexico, and the region’s mostly handmade domestic infrastructure resulted in her video Lazarao Cardenas Electrizada (2006). The video takes the viewer on narrowly focused journey from the governmentally sanctioned electrical power source to the farthest reaches of improvised and precariously home-made power lines and poles.  

Cynthia Hooper was raised in Los Angeles and now works and teaches in northern California. For the last two years, her work has explored the built terrain of the fluidly and precariously expanding working-class communities of Tijuana, Mexico. Hooper is fascinated by the formal beauty and conceptual complexities generated by degraded and environmentally problematic landscapes. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and in Mexico. She has contributed to several interdisciplinary projects including collaborations with SIMPARCH and the Center for Land Use Interpretation.