Christina McPhee
dal 4/6/2007 al 28/7/2007
Segnalato da
4/6/2007
Christina McPhee
American University Museum - Katzen Arts Center, Washington
The artist presents large-scale photoworks, video and high-definition video from her meditation on seismic memory and identity along the San Andreas Fault in California, exploring the synchronicity between natural disaster and human trauma. This is the first time that the project is seen in its entirety on the East Coast.
Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries
Christina McPhee presents large-scale photoworks, video and high-definition video
from her acclaimed Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, a meditation on seismic memory and
identity along the San Andreas Fault in California, exploring the synchronicity
between natural disaster and human trauma.
This is the first time that the Diaries will be seen in their entirety on the East
Coast. Portions appear in the public collections of Rose Goldsen Archive of New
Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Turbulence, New York; and Experimental
Television Center, New York. Videos from the Diaries project have shown
internationally, in InteractivA 07, biennial of new art, Mexico; the Cartes Centre
for Art and Technology, Espoo (Helsinki), Finland with support from the American
Scandinavian Foundation; Bildmuseet Umeå Sweden; RX Gallery San Francisco; Transport
Gallery Los Angeles and elsewhere.
Christina McPhee's art explores the phenomenology of place in new media,
photography, drawing, sound and the net. "La Conchita mon amour", on the
mudslide-torn beach town of La Conchita, California, premiered at Sara Tecchia Roma
New York in October-November 2006. 2007 installations include "La Conchita N=Amour",
a 22 screen installation for the Thresholds Art Space, Horsecross, Perth, Scotland,
October-December 2007; and "La Conchita Paradise" video and print installation for
Break Festival 2.4, Ljubjana, Slovenia, November 2007.
Screenings of recent Carrizo
Diaries films showed for the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake in
April 2006 at Pacific Film Archive/Berkeley Art Museum; for "noise: in language,
culture, body and nature" at the Itaú Cultural Centers in Bela Horizonte and Belém,
Brazil, April 2007; and in 2005 for "Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration in
Contemporary Art," at Carnegie Mellon University Miller Gallery of Art.
She recently
created theatrical video for Wunderkabinet, in collaboration with Matt Brubeck and
Pamela Z, a multimedia opera based on stories from the Museum of Jurassic Technology
(Los Angeles) at the Redcat Theatre, Walt Disney Concert Hall, October 2006.
Christina is a participating editor for the documenta 12 magazine project,
2006-2007, in collaboration with the -empyre- online listserv, Sydney. Her work is
represented by Sara Tecchia Roma New York.
American University Museum - Katzen Arts Center
Massachusetts Avenue - Washington D.C.