In der zweiten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhundert lässt sich eine Verschränkung von Bildender Kunst und Theater beobachten, die im Œuvre von Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski und Ilya Kabakov ihren exemplarischen Ausdruck findet. Die Ausweitung der Kunst in den Umgebungsraum, di…
"Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks implies that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials and other issues concerning care and management of these a…
Contradiction between the visible (zahir) and the veiled (baatin) creates this dialog of what we see and what the reality holds within; "They find as what they seek..." I have found my secret hide-outs, the Sanctuaries as my divine peace and every time I am in contact with them,…
We each experience the world through the prism of our upbringing, our traditions and the familiar sights and sounds embedded deep within our soul. Only Sound Remains is an installation in which I explore and share those experiences through objects, sounds and video. Ceramic vess…
Zahir & Batin: Rhythms of Being is a multi-faceted research project questioning the definition and teleology of the term Islamic art while positioning a contemporary practice of art and design within the historical discipline. The investigation emphasizes the need for a re-inter…
As a performance artist and arts activist I present my research project to the audience in performative writing, a postmodern research style that advocates the integration of the artist/researcher identity. In the summer of 2010, I left for Egypt to teach a performance and insta…
As a person who fills many roles—housewife, parent, artist—my work is suffuse with everyday monotonous routines. I celebrate notions of domesticity by turning the ordinary into the fantastical, routine into ritual. Instead of relying on traditional art materials for this body of…
The following thesis explores how creating work in a non-traditional art space can change the perceptions of that environment and the work itself. This essay is intended for exhibition designers, installation artists, design educators and museum/gallery directors. Using various …
Twelve hundred piano strings reach from floor to ceiling in Large String Array , turning the whole of Jack Straw New Media Gallery into an automatic instrument. An ensemble of synthesized voices playback over the array of strings, for a seventeen minute song cycle. Custom high-g…
between Gods & Dogs is an exhibition, comprised of two installations, that raises questions about belief, authority, knowledge, and power. The Word That Binds Them is an interactive installation involving books that have been put in positions of authority or treated as sacred by…
Whispers from the Ghost House is the concrete manifestation of the mutable nature of childhood memory held within the nebulous forms of home. In all of its many incarnations home exists as a construction out of time and space that absorbs the accumulation of life performed aroun…
This thesis explores the aesthetics of embodiment in technologized installation art through the work of four artists–Mona Hatoum, YoHa, Anicka Yi, and Pamela Rosenkranz–who employ multisensory means to reconstruct the body as an entity to be sensed, rather than strictly seen. In…
Olafur Eliasson: works with light 1991-2004
Published to accompany the exhibition held at Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 4 April - 29 May 2005.
Published to accompany the exhibition held at Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 10 February - 6 May 2001, and then touring the United States.