Steve Fagin, the recipient of several NEA grants, is Professor ofVisual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He has produceda series of feature length videos including: The Amazing Voyage ofGustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel, The Machine That Killed BadPeople and TropiCola. They have featured prominently at museums andinternational festivals and have been screened on Bravo Internationalin Latin America, Canal + in Europe and PBS in the United States. Hiswork has been featured at a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art,New York and is the subject of a book from Duke University Press,Talkin' With Your Mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of SteveFagin. Recently, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art featured his work at shows on the art of the 20th Century.Steve Fagin’s video piece Oliver Kahn, (2003, 55 minutes) is namedafter the Bayern Munich goalkeeper who lead the German national team inthe World Cup last year in Japan and Korea. This piece is loosely basedon the 1958 one-act play by Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape, in whichan old man plays back audio tapes he recorded while young andreconsiders his early passions and ambitions.
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