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 Handelman received an MFA from Bard College in 2001. Solo exhibitions include Cristinerose Gallery and Jack the Pelican, in New York and Catherine Clark Gallery, SF. Her performance The Laughing Lounge, was featured in Performa 05. Her videos have screened at Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris, Institute of Contemporary Art London, Lincoln Center and Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, among others. She directed the feature documentary BloodSisters (1998 Bravo award) and has received grants from NYSCA, Experimental Television Center and Horizons Foundation. Reviews of her work have appeared in Art in America, Art Forum, and The New York Times. Publications include Inappropriate Behaviour (Serpents Tail, London), Apocalypse Culture (Feral House Press, Los Angeles.) She teaches in the Media Studies Graduate Program of The New School. www.michellehandelman.com  Michelle Handelman, Folly & Error, 2005 Video, color, sound 3 minute excerpt from film, which is part of This Delicate Monster Folly & Error, part of Handelman’s project This Delicate Monster, is a multi-media pop fable inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s The Flower of Evil, a book of poems as succulent and darkly suave as 19th-century Paris and Baudelaire himself. Folly & Error are the twins Baudelaire refers to in his poems – youth and age, pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow – these twins are the great equation of life caught in an endless landscape of effort. Handelman transposes the Flowers of Evil into a contemporary pop landscape, creating a haunting and hallucinatory fragmented narrative that can best be described as a cross between a music video, a pagan ritual and a fashion shoot gone terribly wrong. Small video Medium video Large video
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