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Kate Gilmore knows how to make a smashing impression. In her visceral videos, the New York-based artist appears fetchingly dressed while swinging a sledgehammer or kicking through drywall in heels. Gilmore has become known for turning female stereotypes on their heads by parodying the limits of physical endurance against bright bubblegum backdrops. This Saturday at 7 p.m., she’ll pop the cork on the new Design District digs of Locust Projects, with “By Any Means,” a performance-based video and a site-specific sculpture in which the physicality of architecture and sculpture is pitted against the female body and will.
Across the tracks in Wynwood, at Edge Zones Art Space (47 NE 25th St., Miami), Cuban filmmaker and video artist Magdiel Aspillaga will explore his obsession with sex, death, and the cinema in “Alpha: Voyage to the Center of the Earth.” The site-specific work seeks to question the conflicts generated from the consumption of video art within a gallery space and will include images obtained from magazines and newsprint from ’50s-era Cuba while referencing the artist’s new surroundings in Miami.
Sat., May 9, 7 p.m., 2009
