20/92 Video Festival | SHE

May 14 - 24, 2026

Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts
1400 North American St., Philadelphia, PA 19122

A darkened indoor space with a large illuminated screen displaying an experimental video by Pam Korman. Silhouetted audience members are seated in front of the screen.

Beyond both genetics and physiology, “inherited” gestures, tendencies, patterns, and word choices are passed down through repeated exposure and imitation, rather than being taught, echoing those who came before and shaping the selves we inhabit. SHE frames inheritance as an active and ongoing negotiation between generations rather than a single, passive act of receiving. Korman combines repetitive action—ballerina spins, bowl mixing, and back and forth floating motions—with layered and competing text. These overlapping visual elements create a struggle over what is seen, read, remembered, or obscured. Round and round, forward and backward, and side to side, a tension opens between influence and agency, instinct and performance, inheritance and self-determination. Through this friction, Korman reveals the complex and often contradictory ways identity is formed through what is passed down.

People sitting in a dark room watching a large screen that displays a close-up of a person's face with their lips slightly parted.
Dark room with a large screen displaying experimental video still 'SHE' at Icebox Project Space, a woman repetitively mixing a blood red velvet cake mixture in a white bowl on a white marble surface.
A large, dimly lit room with a high ceiling and a white projection screen displaying text from Korman's 'SHE'. Two people are seated, watching 20/92 Video Festival.
People seated in a dark theater watching a presentation that displays an overhead view of hands stirring a bowl of red liquid on a white surface.
Two hands mixing red fruit filling with grated cheese in a white bowl on a light-colored surface.
Black and white image with indistinct shapes and red text that reads 'the game... they want... she acted'.
Close-up of a person's lips applying red lipstick, viewed through a mirror with a white blurry background, experimental video still 'SHE' at Icebox Project Space.