{"id":161,"date":"2011-07-18T00:02:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T05:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=161"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:45:10","slug":"2-from-jess-loseby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"2 from Jess Loseby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2007\/armsrace.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/03\/armsrace.jpg' alt='Arms Race'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2007\/armsrace.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Arms Race (2007, 1.85MB, 1:02 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2007\/handbag_surveillance.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/03\/handbag_surveillance.jpg' alt='Handbag Surveillance'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2007\/handbag_surveillance.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Handbag Surveillance (2007, 4.18MB, 2:05 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone lucky enough to have already encountered Jess Loseby&#8217;s artwork<br \/>\nonline or in a gallery will have realised immediately what a thoughtful,<br \/>\ncourageous &#038; dextrous artist she is. She hasn&#8217;t been so active of late &#038;<br \/>\nher excellent site is offline now due to her continuing ill health<br \/>\n(although it is possible to explore it somewhat using the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060612212024\/http:\/\/www.rssgallery.com\/\" target=\"-blank\">wayback machine<\/a>).<br \/>\nThis is a real loss: there is a warmth &#038; humanity to her work<br \/>\n&#8211; an ability to find beauty in the ordinary, the overlooked<br \/>\n( &#038; in our still sexist society, these categories often overlapping<br \/>\nwith the domestic, the feminine) &#8211; which one often looks for in vain elsewhere.<br \/>\nHer work doesn&#8217;t strut, it enchants, (&#038; then maybe sticks a<br \/>\nbig fuck-off hatpin into you).<br \/>\nVideo making isn&#8217;t central to what she does, but when she does it<br \/>\nshe does it with all the qualities noted above.<br \/>\nEnjoy &#038; learn.<\/p>\n<p>Music for <em>Handbag Surveillance<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rathergood.net\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Clive Loseby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We at DVblog join with many of her friends in wishing Jess well<br \/>\nand look forward to her return to active art making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arms Race (2007, 1.85MB, 1:02 min) Handbag Surveillance (2007, 4.18MB, 2:05 min) Anyone lucky enough to have already encountered Jess Loseby&#8217;s artwork online or in a gallery will have realised immediately what a thoughtful, courageous &#038; dextrous artist she is. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,34,33,14,31,54,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-arts","category-cellphone","category-conceptual","category-experimental","category-music-video","category-silent","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11957,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/11957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}