http://www.arleendelima.com Arleen Delima Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:56:30 +0000 http://www.arleendelima.com en http://www.arleendelima.com/Mis-Deseos-Final http://www.arleendelima.com/following/arleendelima.com/Mis-Deseos-Final Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:56:30 +0000 Arleen Delima 2265296 “Mis Deseos Final” Arleen Delima Video Performance 2011 “Mis Deseos Final” sprang up as prelude to my piece “Better Yet When Dead: after Coco Fusco”, a public performance where I staged my own funeral in the Spring of 2009- “Mis Deseos Final” translate as “My Final Wishes”. The video serves as specific time based relic of my life, reciting my personal convictions and final goodbyes for my planned death. Wanting to take control of every step that ultimately led to my time of death. This piece explores the concept of if we could plan out our own deaths what would we say? Hoping to steer the viewer away from “how or “when” I died- I wanted to make those question irrelevant- Focusing solely on my over the top justifications for my death. Believing that I cannot die in vein, my wishes and goodbyes are recited in Spanish, adding subtitles and music in the background I wanted total control in the edit of this video- hoping to close any gaps where this video (and my death) may be easily dismissed. *Please Note* This is not a suicide video. http://www.arleendelima.com/For-a-New-Body-of-Work http://www.arleendelima.com/following/arleendelima.com/For-a-New-Body-of-Work Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:18:47 +0000 Arleen Delima 2188268 As of 10/22/11 This is the last painting I ever did. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188268/NEW BODYagain.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="490" width_o="1956" height_o="1432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188268/NEW BODYagain_o.jpg" align="left" /> For A New Possible Body of Work Diptych Oil on Paper 36 x 80 2008 http://www.arleendelima.com/The-Love-Letter http://www.arleendelima.com/following/arleendelima.com/The-Love-Letter Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:46:38 +0000 Arleen Delima 2188177 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188177/THE LOVE LETTER 2.jpg" border="0" width="639" height="480" width_o="639" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188177/THE LOVE LETTER 2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188177/THE LOVE LETTER 1.jpg" border="0" width="639" height="483" width_o="639" height_o="483" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188177/THE LOVE LETTER 1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188177/THE LOVE LETTER 3.jpg" border="0" width="650" height="489" width_o="650" height_o="489" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188177/THE LOVE LETTER 3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188177/The Love Letter- Installation .jpg" border="0" width="604" height="453" width_o="604" height_o="453" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188177/The Love Letter- Installation _o.jpg" align="left" /> Video Stills The Love Letter 2009 Video Performance + Installation Coming Soon. http://www.arleendelima.com/The-Essentials http://www.arleendelima.com/following/arleendelima.com/The-Essentials Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:37:15 +0000 Arleen Delima 2188157 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188157/MONEY 1of 3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188157/MONEY 1of 3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188157/SEX 1 of 3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188157/SEX 1 of 3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188157/DEATH 1 of 3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/2188157/DEATH 1 of 3_o.jpg" align="left" /> The Essentials: Money, Sex, Death Ink on Paper 18 x 24 http://www.arleendelima.com/Now-I-Shot-Damien-Hirst http://www.arleendelima.com/following/arleendelima.com/Now-I-Shot-Damien-Hirst Thu, 26 May 2011 19:53:44 +0000 Arleen Delima 1504242 NOW, I SHOT DAMIEN HIRST from Arleen Delima on Vimeo. http://www.arleendelima.com/Chronicles-of-A-Lesbian-Correspondance http://www.arleendelima.com/following/arleendelima.com/Chronicles-of-A-Lesbian-Correspondance Thu, 26 May 2011 19:18:06 +0000 Arleen Delima 1503966 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503966/24241_526652372386_12502386_31344939_41338_n.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="432" width_o="720" height_o="465" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503966/24241_526652372386_12502386_31344939_41338_n_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503966/24241_526652377376_12502386_31344940_2531715_n.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="442" width_o="720" height_o="476" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503966/24241_526652377376_12502386_31344940_2531715_n_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503966/26818_10150150476350083_754880082_11905350_7909639_n.jpg" border="0" width="604" height="453" width_o="604" height_o="453" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503966/26818_10150150476350083_754880082_11905350_7909639_n_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503966/26818_10150150477515083_754880082_11905408_1552183_n.jpg" border="0" width="604" height="453" width_o="604" height_o="453" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503966/26818_10150150477515083_754880082_11905408_1552183_n_o.jpg" align="left" /> Chronicles of a Lesbian Correspondence: Soledad Del Rio Framed Documents 2010 In the past eight months I have collected various emails, text messages, and conversations with an individual that sparked an interest in me. Unknowingly where these saved documents and relationship with this person would ultimately lead me, I continued to save every form of communication that was elicited with me over a span of time. Recently I finally gathered these materials to create a solid piece. YELLOW- Yellow is suppose to be a warm and embracing color, something that makes one feel safe and at peace. My association with yellow is not that warmness and state of tranquility. Yellow is a state of weakness, and repulsion. The following series of correspondences evokes and embodies that feeling of disgust and cowardice. Cowardice to address the situation, and disgust at that manner it handled. In this series Chronicles of a Lesbian Correspondence, yellow is that lack of color and warm safety. It is a feeling, an event, and a recollection of everything that was happening at the moment in time. My these document are a series of eleven 16x22 inch frames; the frames display the enlarged bold black and white text correspondences in a chronological grid formation; In order to create a materialized solid piece of art. Enlarging these documents and exposing the viewer to this piece of my personal life as well as those involved, was something that I feel leads to a vital part of artistic growth. To display this information publicly without fear and cowardice is ultimately what I want. While I may feel a sense of closure in this situation, I cannot eliminate the bodily feeling of disgust that I get whenever I encounter these documents. These correspondences are a complete honest unedited recollection of that event that I have chosen to preserve; the names and contact information have been changed in order to protect the privacy of those involved, except for mine. My hope in presenting a piece of this bold nature publicly is something that can be left for interpretation. As an artist I want to communicate in an honest manner to my audience, and I can only hope they can place themselves in the situation I presenting to make forth their own judgements and conclusions. -2010 "YELLOW" Group Show MyPac Clubhouse Gallery http://www.arleendelima.com/My-Wedding http://www.arleendelima.com/following/arleendelima.com/My-Wedding Thu, 26 May 2011 18:56:29 +0000 Arleen Delima 1503882 A collaborative public performance where two homosexual individuals were legally binding with an official marriage document for the state of Florida. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503882/my-wedding-1-cite.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="475" width_o="500" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503882/my-wedding-1-cite_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503882/my-wedding-3-cite.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="475" width_o="500" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503882/my-wedding-3-cite_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503882/my-wedding-2-cite.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="475" width_o="500" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/105905/1503882/my-wedding-2-cite_o.jpg" align="left" /> My Wedding Collaboration with Grant Pilon Public Performance Providence, RI 2009 After two years of marriage, Grant Pilon and I still remain legally married in the State of Florida. - May 2011 http://www.arleendelima.com/BRACE-YOURSELF-A-Michael-Jackson-Christ-MAS http://www.arleendelima.com/following/arleendelima.com/BRACE-YOURSELF-A-Michael-Jackson-Christ-MAS Thu, 26 May 2011 18:44:15 +0000 Arleen Delima 1503837 A pop icon's video compilations becomes the conversation starter at a family Christmas gathering, I hope you've braced yourself for this one. BRACE YOURSELF from Arleen Delima on Vimeo. http://www.arleendelima.com/Born-N-Raised-Arleen http://www.arleendelima.com/following/arleendelima.com/Born-N-Raised-Arleen Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:21:10 +0000 Arleen Delima 1359989 Arleen: Born N Raised from Arleen Delima on Vimeo. Arleen: Born N Raised Webcam 4:25 Born N Raised: Arleen Delima is a video performance running with theme of “being put on display” I am currently a secretary in an office and have decided to use the time and resources there to make videos, under a “secretarial point of view”. Using a webcam and eliminating any sort of professional attribute, I put on heavy eyeliner, dark make-up, and lipstick to extenuate the sort of “ghettoness” that lies beneath the secretarial exterior when no one is around. Using the Miami based artist Dj Khaled’s song entitled “Born N Raised”, I being to express my inner urges and desires, exaggeratingly pouting my lips, making sexual faces, and fluffing my hair. I begin to tap into the idea of how “although I am a secretary, I secretly want to just make sensual webcam videos” A deep inner suppressed desire to let my street attitude come out. But more too the point, I choose the song “Born N Raised” because it exemplified how, although I may have an extravagant office job (where I must be on my best behavior..) There is still the inner me that I’m an trying to suppress, my inner “ghettoness” that can only be express when I’m walking the streets of Miami. This can also apply outside the office setting, where in any location I must act a certain way. In sense I often feel that I can be professional, feminine, educated, and still maintain Miami street credibility. http://www.arleendelima.com/Gaga-for-GaGa-A-Secretarial-Exploration-of-a-Pop-Sensation http://www.arleendelima.com/following/arleendelima.com/Gaga-for-GaGa-A-Secretarial-Exploration-of-a-Pop-Sensation Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:21:07 +0000 Arleen Delima 1360145 Gaga For GaGa from Arleen Delima on Vimeo. Gaga for GaGa: A Secretarial Exploration of a Pop Sensation My Private Art Club "Chandelier Exhibition" (2009) Video Performance + Installation 6:45 Gaga for GaGa: A Secretarial Exploration of a Pop Sensation is the second series from these “secretarial” perspectives. Lady GaGa had certainly become interesting subject for me. GaGa with her outlandish, outspoken radical feminist views and poignant yet visually illuminating music videos/performances have completely attracted me. Her single “Bad Romance”, just so happen to coincide with the first video I had made. Mimicking certain characteristics and visual props from her video, I wanted to experiment and see how far a secretary could portray a pop icon with only the tools at her desk. Video 1: IM A FREE BITCH BABY Video 2: IM A FREE BITCH BABY (25 sec preview) Were the first two that premiered on an online database. I hoped to invoked viewers to keep watching and questioning: “What will this lonely secretary, present us on November 28 2009?” Every couple of days I uploaded a teaser closer to the premier date. (These commercial served as promos for the final premier as well as corresponded with Lady GaGa’s second Album debut "The Fame Monster" [11.23.09])