bzlam11's video: Project 888 MOCA Taipei Interview with Brenda Zlamany

This interview was recorded and edited by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, on the occasion of Brenda Zlamany's exhibition "Project 888" (Jan. 15-Feb. 29, 2012). The exhibition documents the adventures of the New York artist Brenda Zlamany and her ten-year-old Mandarin-speaking daughter as they traveled in Taiwan and persuaded 888 people, mostly indigenous inhabitants, to pose for portraits. In the interview Zlamany describes her artistic process: meeting people and creating bonds with them, her daughter serving as interpreter and fellow "head hunter"; painting watercolor portraits with a camera lucida while in homes, in places of business, and on the street; and asking the subjects to pose for a second portrait, in which they present their painted image to the camera.