Alison O’Daniel works across disciplines, combining sculpture, sound-baths, painting, sports/dance teams, and films with live music or sign language accompaniment. Installations, films, and instances of the performative create a biographical imaginary that shifts bodily comprehension toward a physical and tactile language of perception. Her films enact a sensory experience on the body of the viewer through a combination of subtle and pronounced transformations of narrative filmmaking and the cinematic experience. Characters willingness to encounter the unknown becomes a model for the viewer’s own rootless journey into language, relationship and environment. O’Daniel lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She teaches at Otis College of Art and Design and is a recipient of the 2011 California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, a Puffin Foundation grant, and the Agnes Gund Fellowship. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007 and studied at UC Irvine, Goldsmiths College and The Cleveland Institute of Art, where she has also taught. As part of the group show Walking Forward-Running Past at Art in General Gallery and in conjunction with Performa 11, she premiered her first feature film, Night Sky, at the Anthology Film Archives on Nov. 21 and 22, 2011.