Chapter Three

Chapter Three is a multi-media project included in the 2012 DeCordova Biennial, at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA. This video was part of the installation designed specifically for the museum’s DeNormandie Library. Chapter Three combined animated video, book arts, and sculpture; the central metaphor of the piece formed around the idiom “snake eyes.” 

HD video (2012) Sound by Scott Reber (Work/Death).

From the DECORDOVA BIENNIAL 2012 catalog:

by Mary Tinti

Jo Dery’s animations are magnificent mash-ups that combine moments of collage, illustration, digital manipulation, photomontage, puppetry, and print. She has a knack for splicing together disparate narrative genres and structures – from folklore and fairytales to contemporary current events, and she is masterful at playing with pace, sequence, and repetition in ways that radically alter the viewer’s expectations for how a good story can or should be told.