For the 39th Video Art Program, McLean Fahnestock's 'Grand Finale' will be screened.
Total 135 times of space shot since 1981 are arranged in the video. Fahnestock has created video arts as editing scenes captured from existing video or film. Rather than political and emotional story surrounding the space shuttle, he shows various scenes of it, such as color of ignition, smog like mushroom cloud, and launched spacecraft, in beautiful color and form so that the video provides different perspective unlike what we can see on TV. 

McLean Fahnestock works in video, sculptural installation, and digital photographic processes. McLean selects material from the media and institutions, seeking out footage, images, and items that tap into the collective memory. She received a BFA from Middle Tennessee State University and MFA from California State University Long Beach. Her work has been exhibited and screened in galleries, museums, and alternative spaces across the United States and Internationally in Ireland, Canada, Belgium, Germany and Japan. She has received an ARC Grant from the Durfee Foundation, two Hoff Foundation Grants, and was awarded a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach in 2009. Her work was included in an upcoming DVD compilation of short videos by the LA Film Forum. She was a finalist for a 2012 Vimeo Video Award. McLean lives and works in Long Beach, CA. 

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McLean Fahnestock
Grand Finale, 2010-11,
HD video, color, stereo sound, 3 min. 55 sec.
courtesy of Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

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