Alix Pearlstein is an artist who works in sculpture, installation, and dance/choreography. She has found a way to incorporate her love of the three different mediums by combining them in short films. She focuses on dematerialization to the point of non-existence by breaking things down to their absolute core. Her influences include the history of post-modern dance and wants her work to focus on the importance of the performance. She does not necessarily center on the quality or content, but of the physical actions of the performance. One of her first projects was "Two Women," created in 2000, which included one live performer and a magazine cutout of a woman. The two images are laid over each other to interact with each other in an abstract way. There is also a voiceover that gives the two women commands and periodic moans puncture the sound byte. Another project of hers is "Episode" from 2002 which follows the narrative of a family drama. There are four characters and through slight sounds by each, the audience is given their dynamic as father, mother, and two children. She wants her locations to be an indeterminate void so that fill that blank from our own experiences. One project she created called "Forsaken" was made as a response to the Bush administration. She did it in a very pessimistic time, focusing on a person in a great place of power. The general public wonders why this one person should be in charge of everyone else. It had a feeling of the Emperor's new clothes, creating concern that the one person in control is so gullible and easily manipulated.
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