"New York-based artist Ericka Beckman will present her work in progress, HIATUS, an experimental narrative about a young woman who journeys into an interactive identity game in the privacy of her apartment..."

The 1991 video selections are the strongest of any Biennial to date. Included in the opening week are Charles Atlas's subversive and moving Because We Must (with dancer Michael Clark), Ericka Beckman and Mike Kelley's Grimm-fairy-tale-gone-California, Blind Country, and Marlon Rigg's erotic and political Tongues Untied.

"Beckman's photos are extraordinarily cinematic, made possible by using a motorized 'movement control device,' developed by the artist with Stanley Kaufman and robotics engineer Randy Rubenstein, both of Boston..."

Beckman makes films without plots in a conventional sense, rather constituting them from themes: socialization, acculturation, competition, and the organization of thoughts and memory.