STEVE FAGIN

Steve Fagin

http://stevefagin.net/

Steve Fagin, the recipient of several NEA grants, is Professor of
Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He has produced
a series of feature length videos including: The Amazing Voyage of
Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel, The Machine That Killed Bad
People and TropiCola. They have featured prominently at museums and
international festivals and have been screened on Bravo International
in Latin America, Canal + in Europe and PBS in the United States. His
work 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 Steve
Fagin. Recently, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of
American Art featured his work at shows on the art of the 20th Century.

Steve Faginís video piece Oliver Kahn, (2003, 55 minutes) is named
after the Bayern Munich goalkeeper who lead the German national team in
the World Cup last year in Japan and Korea. This piece is loosely based
on the 1958 one-act play by Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape, in which
an old man plays back audio tapes he recorded while young and
reconsiders his early passions and ambitions.