Elizabeth Leister

Surrender, single channel video, runnning time: 2:45, 2007

Surrender isolates a series of moments from a trapeze act through repetition and slow motion. The body shifts from a state of grace into total loss of control. The fall, a surrender to gravity, is frozen mid-air to reveal the gestures of the body relinquishing control.

Symbiote, single channel video with sound, running time: 5:50, 2006

Images of the body and the interior workings of a computer underscore a female voice recounting a symbiotic relationship with a machine that is magical and mysterious, fulfilling yet frustrating and ultimately inescapable.

Secret Code (2:46), one of three videos (Live Wire (2:17) and Extension Conflict (1:50) that form a series collectively titled Romantech Machine, single channel with sound, 2004

Through minimal imagery and an audio track of internal questioning and sounds sampled from the computer itself, connections are set up between our relationships with human beings and technology

Pas de Deux, single channel video, running time: 7:30 2004

Pas de Deux is a moving collage exploring corporeality.

Crystal Ball, single channel projection, excerpt from a 2:00 loop, 2004

Crystal Ball, the result of a private performance, uses the body as material, tool and canvas to continue my exploration of the fragile and powerful body, interior and exterior spaces and the ephemeral.