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Charles Gick’s art explores intersections between memory, the body, emotions, and sensory experiences shared with the natural environment. His work is affected by the phenomenal and ephemeral qualities found in the environment—the passing of a cloud, a violent storm, the heat of summer, or the cracking earth on the dried up belly of a pond. Gick’s installations combine earth art, process, video, photography and found objects to express personal and collective memory, loss and physicality. In Drought Table, mud has been left to dry on a dining room table, creating a network of deep fissures. Across the table a “conversation” of vocal chords takes place, as a man in a vast farm landscape attempts communication with a woman framed in an urban environment.
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Charles Gick (their other films)
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Genre: Experimental |
| Country: USA |
Copyright Year: 2003 |
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Length: 00:10:00 |
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Aspect Magazine
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COMMENTATOR BIOGRAPHY:
Elizabeth K. Menon is Assistant Professor of
Contemporary Art History at Purdue University. Dr. Menon has published on a variety of subjects concerning nineteenth and twentieth-century graphic arts and popular culture. Her articles have appeared in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Master Drawings, Nouvelles de L’Estampe and Art Journal. Professor Menon’s current research, titled Cyborg Art History, seeks to integrate new media and technology-driven art into the art history canon. Recent publications pertaining to this project include “Ut Pixel Poesis,” in Turning Trees: Selected Readings of the International Visual Literacy Association edited by Robert Griffin (IVLA, 2003) and “Web Installation Art, Interactivity and ‘User Connectivity’” in Image and Imagery edited by Corrado Federici (Peter Lang, forthcoming, 2004).
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