Tuesday April 22, 2008
1PM
Denise Marika is a Boston based video artist well known for her site specific video projections and multi-media installations. Within those installations and projections Marika has included her own body as platform and projection for her art. Her recent work Downrush, 2007 explores the viewer's complicity and passivity to current political and social events related to the consequences of war and genocide.
Denise Marika is a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is represented by Howard Yezerski Gallery. She is the recipient of numerous awards, such as the AICA International Critics Award in 2006, the LEF Foundation Individual Artist Grant in 2005. She has received grants form the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities.
VIDEO Leg 2005A leg is stretched along the length of exposed tree root. The downed tree trunk and leg are both coated in grey clay, matched in shape, color and form. Slowly the leg moves along the trunk caressing its length.
VIDEO Downrush 2007Downrush relies on the viewer’s complicity and passivity as witness to current events, conflicts, war, genocide and the associated loss of lives. In Downrush, a body wrapped in burial cloth rolls down the full length of a wooden stairway, the dead weight of the body hits hard as it cascades downward shaking the supporting framework.
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