Althea Thauberger

This week when Althea Thauberger came to show us her videos I watched all of them and tried to absorb what we viewed. Alot of her work incorporated mostly singing. Don't get me wrong musicals are a respectable form of storytelling, however usually its not for me. The First work (not afraid to die) seemed like a portrait that moved. Then this voice came in. My first impression was, "come on, I don't have to sit through another laborious musical do I?" Yet the way Althea Thauberger uses music is not quite the format I was used to. After discussion I learned it was her purpose to throw her viewers off. She took conventions and bent them just a little bit. This made everything more interesting. Her work songstress was a music video, but at the same time not a music video. It was film that had sound included, yet it was a long take of the same view. No one could say that this is normal. Now that I look back at my experience with her I realized it was much more enjoyable.