STRANGER COMES TO TOWN



Jacqueline Goss, 28:00, video, 2007
"Stranger Comes to Town" re-works animations from the Department of Homeland Security, combining them with stories from the border, impressions from the on-line game World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange. Through the stories of six different people who have entered the U.S. as foreigners, Goss focuses on the questions and examinations used to establish identity at the border, and how these processes in turn affect one's own sense of self and view of the world.

http://www.jacquelinegoss.com/

Jacqueline Goss makes videos and web-based works exploring the rules, histories, and tools of language and mapmaking systems. Her projects take as their source specific acts of writing and cartography that bring about cultural change, technological innovation, or create social narrative ruptures. Recently, she has used 2D digital animation techniques to work within the genre of the animated documentary. A native of New Hampshire, Goss attended Brown University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and currently teaches at Bard College in the Hudson Valley of New York. Her award winning videos have shown at festivals, museums, universities and cinematheques all over the world.