Flatscape ‘Sees Stars’ on Feb. 27

At 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27, Baton Rouge Gallery’s Flatscape Video Art Series will look past the glitz and pageantry of pop idolatry to examine just how deeply our obsession with celebrity saturates our everyday lives. The year’s program, “I’ll Be Watching You: Tales of Celebrity Obsession,” will use Joan Baderman’s Joan Sees Stars (1993) as a vehicle for this exploration.

This hour-long work of video art presents a “mediaholic” providing an outrageously funny take on how celebrity culture, especially movies stars, make their way into our lives, our dreams and our beds.

Award-winning artists Joan Baderman explores the politics of identity with this eerie comedy jumbled into sensational cultural critique. Braderman holds a bacherlor’s degree from Harvard and a master’s degree from New York University. This film has been seen on cable channels from coast to coast, in galleries all over the world as well as on PBS. Writings from the artist have appeared in The Village Voice, The London Guardian and her video work are in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

The final date for “I’ll Be Watching You” is March 27. Visit batonrougegallery.org for details on all Flatscape engagements. Admission to each installment is free for all Baton Rouge Gallery members and just $5 for non-members.

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