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In Flight, installation, ©2010
An immersive video and sound installation inspired by the myth of the phoenix.
white Static, live performance ©2009
Premiere October 23, 2009 at St. Mark's Church, 10 pm
atsushi As Part of a Whole, a series of video portraits, ongoing since 2005
As a painter uses paint on canvas, Beck and Calvo use motion and sound to capture an atmospheric essence of their subject. Recent subjects include butoh dancer Atsushi Takenouchi, poet Bill Kushner and poet Jennifer Bartlett.
orange Orange Echolon, live performance ©2009
Performed by Michele Beck with Jorge Calvo on the iphone and toy megaphone

Water, photographs ©2007
A series of photographs shot with a plastic underwater camera.
endoskeleton

Endoskeleton, 20 minutes ©2005
In the performance, Beck and Calvo’s entire bodies are wrapped in packing tape with the sticky side facing out.

randall's tunnel

Randall's Tunnel, Installation ©2004
Randall’s Tunnel is a multi-projection video installation composed of four video projections, sound manipulation and a large pot of boiling water on an electric burner.

for to end

To End Yet Again, 5 minutes, ©2004
For To End Yet Again is a non-narrative, philosophical investigation where motion is not progress, but rather circularity and repetition.

440.0 Hz

440.0 Hz, 3 minutes ©2004
440.0 Hz. was shot with a spy camera that was placed inside the mouth.

vortex

Vortex, 3 minutes ©2004
Vortex is a video with two performers whose heads are wrapped in packing tape with the sticky side out.

labyrinith

Labyrinth, 5:00 minutes ©2004
Labyrinth follows the journey of a person traveling alone through evocative, dream-like landscapes.

whirlwind white Whirlwind White, 1 minute 45 seconds ©2003
In Whirlwind White a series of objects come spinning out of a white oblivion at the viewer and disappear as though they had flown out of the screen.
numiniama Numiniama, installation ©2003
Looking inside a small peephole, the viewer sees a fast-paced fragmented video of a man eating a person's foot.
o ept O Ept Anis, installation ©2002
The audience sees a dollhouse door, which must be opened in order to view the small screen. Behind the door, the performers, whose heads are bound together by rubber bands, spin around as their painfully distorted faces confront the viewer.
dream house Dreamhouse, 1 minute ©2002
In Dreamhouse, the performers caress a gingerbread house, peer though its windows and take bites out of it. During the video the house is destroyed, but like an obsessive memory, it continues to reappear in its original form to be contended with over and over again.
orbit Orbit, loop ©2003
Orbit is an endless video of a simple action of two performers circling each other.
dakantala Dakantala, 2 minutes 30 seconds ©2002
Dakantala is a meditation on the circular nature of life and death. The video takes place on a beach with the performer interacting with a wooden door.
Performance: The Art of Daily Life, The New York Presbyterian Hospital ©2001
Beck and Calvo integrate themselves into Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and make a correlation between doctors as healers of the body and artists as potential healers of perception.
9 seconds

9 seconds 11 frames, 3 minutes ©2002
The intimate exchange of kiss becomes a scene of consuming and devouring the other.

harmonics Harmonics, 3 minutes ©2002
Two performers respond to the sound of an accordion and slowly transform one into the other.
onetotwo from one to two too one, 3 minutes ©2000
In from one to two too one two performers use physical metaphors such as trying to kiss with their mouths closed, sewing their clothes together or being stuck together with packing tape to articulate the difficult space between merging and separation.
ii Sounds for the New Millennium, 5 minutes 43 seconds ©2000
Sounds for the New Millennium was made as a comment on the state of the United States at the turn of the millennium and the contradictions inherent in a culture based on capitalism and consumption.