Tara Mateik

In his videos, performances, and
assemblage, Tara Mateik casts himself as theoretical and cultural transvestites
from media culture, competitive sport, and weird science. Rather than passive
recreations of the past, these reenactments serve as political interventions
into our understanding of history. His work has been supported by the MacDowell
Colony, Creative Capital Foundation, and the Franklin Furnace Fund and
exhibited at MoMA PS1, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Dixon Place, The
Kitchen, Participant Inc., Reena Spaulings, Aurora Pictures (Houston), and the
Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany). Mateik’s videos are distributed by
Video Data Bank. He is an Associate Professor in the Media Culture Department
at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.