Auditions: Casting Couch
2011 Casting Couch is the second installment in Milton’s Auditions video series. Shifting between therapeutic processes, acting exercises and self-reflexive awareness of being filmed, a series of participants lie upon…
2011 Casting Couch is the second installment in Milton’s Auditions video series. Shifting between therapeutic processes, acting exercises and self-reflexive awareness of being filmed, a series of participants lie upon…
2011 Confessional is the third video installment in the Auditions video series. Milton and a series of participants (composed of amateur and professional actors, the artist’s mother and a practicing psychiatrist)…
2010, 2005 In Collaboration with Tara Travis.The Actor Cries integrates performance, sound and video into an installation that investigates the somatic manifestation of sadness and the authenticity of emotional experience. Central…
2010 In collaboration with Sheila PoznikoffSt. Theresa’s Basement is a multi-channel video work that utilizes documentary structures to trace the private activities of a Catholic women’s group (made up of 20-30…
2009 Tears of an Icon is a digital collage that explores the fetishization of female sorrow and the camp devotion to expression by combining found photographs of Judy Garland with…
2007 Tara Travis, a professional actor, was hired to enact three characters based on Elizabeth Milton’s deceased family members. After studying photographs, character biographies and descriptions of physical and vocal…
2007 Hypnothesis was a live performance that took place during Milton’s MFA thesis presentation at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery at UBC, Vancouver. Working with a hypno-therapist for a…
2005 Studio Portrait was a process-driven performance enacted during a group exhibition at UBC’s BC Binning Studios in the Spring of 2006. The act of recreating a childhood portrait of Elizabeth,…
2006 Re-Staging the Vision is a video installation made up of two video projections that performatively respond to one another. Based around the process of re-enacting an apparition of the…
2005 Character Sketches are a series of photographs that explore how fantasies of the self are realized through the act of drawing and painting in youth. In an attempt to animate…