Lisa Kirk "Backyard Adversaries”
Governors Island
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Backyard Adversaries by Lisa Kirk is a randomly sequenced HD video installation projected with the Optoma TH 1020 on to four screens, and explores a variety of narrative possibilities in a surround soundscape. Shot in the historic Hudson Valley with four children who improvised an incredible story, the work serves as a critique of recent political events where the children are the protagonists in a game of war, playing dress-up in the midst of a lush and dramatic landscape. Kirk’s practice investigates the contradictions of consumerism and the aestheticiation of formerly political radical signifiers, current events and media.
Lisa Kirk received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her solo exhibitions and installation projects have been held at Invisible/Exports, NYC; smARTspaces, NYC; PS 1 MOMA; Galeria Comercial, PR; Participant INC, NY; and MOT International, London. She has also contributed projects to 2009 Performa Biennial, North Drive Press, and Creative Time. Kirk’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Flash Art, Frieze, Art in America, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and Art Review Magazine, L’Uomo Vogue, Plan B, The Guardian, Time Out London and New York. Her web site can be viewed at http://lisakirkprojects.com.
Location:
Building 10b, Governor's Island
Free ferry service from Manhattan and Brooklyn:
http://www.govisland.com/html/visit/directions.shtml
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Schedule
from May 27, 2011 to September 25, 2011
Fridays, 11am to 4:30pm, Saturdays and Sundays, 11am to 5pm
Reception For The Artist on 2011-06-05 from 13:30 to 15:30
Artist talk: Sun, June 5, 1:30pm, 3:30pm