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The screening features two selected video exchanges from the "One on One" project, followed by a conversation with artist-in-residence Wendy Clarke.

 

Arnold and Ahneva (47 min., 1991), featuring Arnold and Ahneva, deeply connects the pair through discussion of Black brother and sisterhood. The two find comfort in sharing their own creative individualities, endeavors, and dreams. Their discussion and newly formed relationship poignantly touches upon the impact of mass incarceration within the Black community.
 

Ken and Louise (79 min., 1994) encompasses a shared passion for music and pure emotional vulnerability that creates an incredibly intimate relationship between these two strangers throughout the project's evolution. Their connection is palpable, leaving the viewer envisioning a possible real life encounter between the two outside of the realm of this project.

 

"One on One" is a series of video dialogues between the inmates at California Institution for Men in Chino, California, the members of the Church in Ocean Park in Santa Monica, California, and a group of Crenshaw residents in Los Angeles, California. "One on One" was produced while Wendy Clarke was the artist-in-residence at the California Institution for Men in Chino, California. The series uses the medium of video as a means to form relationships between people who would otherwise never get a chance to communicate with each other. Clarke held a video workshop where inmates from the prison made videotapes introducing themselves to strangers on the outside. The collaborators from Crenshaw and the Church in Ocean Park then created their own video responses. Throughout 1992, fifteen pairs of people communicated via this inside/outside process. The inmates and the outside contributors were to keep their dialogue only to video, never in person or through letters, in hopes of creating a pure video experience for the strangers to exchange.

 

This event is presented as part of the Wendy Clarke Artist Residency series.

ADMISSION
- FREE and open to the public. 

FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tue., May 13–Fri. May 16: "Love Tapes" Exhibition
Wed., May 14: "Workshop" with the artist
Thu., May 15: "One on One" Screening
Thu., May 15–Fri, May 16: "Record a Love Tape"

PARKING
- Parking by UCSC permit or ParkMobile.
- Baskin Engineering Lot #139A and Core West are the closest parking lots to the Communications Building.
- Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces, Medical spaces, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.
- More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS) 

ABOUT THE SERIES
Wendy Clarke is in residence at UC Santa Cruz for a week, May 12–16, 2025, to share her work and engage with the campus and wider community. Her visit includes the following: a public exhibition of her ongoing project, "The Love Tapes"; a public screening of selections from her prison video exchange project; "One on One"; a workshop and an opportunity to participate in the ongoing project, "Endless Love Tapes," in which attendees are invited to record a love tape of their own. 

 

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