A few questions with Micah Stansell

Micah Stansell makes videos that resist classification. His current work with collaborator and wife Whitney Stansell, Past. Perfect. Continuous., plays with narrative themes while resisting any obvious plot. The installation uses eight channels of hard-synced video, forcing the viewer decide where to focus and evoking an inescapable feeling that one is always missing some part of the equation. Drawing on colorful frames of William Eggleston-like compositions, the video creates dream-like, Southern visions of family drama. The unexpectedly cinematic and polished quality of the individual videos combined with such an open structure leaves Past. Perfect. Continuous in a strange but fascinating place on the spectrum between narrative and experimental video.

Stansell was recently selected for MOCA GA's Working Artist Project, a program that includes a stipend, studio assistants, and an upcoming solo exhibition at MOCA GA.