An interview by and curator
, curator
Thank you so much for having me in Land scape, it is such a vibrant forum in which to express ideas and creative vision and I am so happy to participate. Yes, I came to my video art practise somewhat by accident. Before 2011, I was engaged in a twelve year painting, drawing and installation practise that was concerned with the overflux of information and the accumulation of material goods in our digital and commoditybased society. Alongside my more contemporary themes I also had one foot firmly planted within art history and was particularly enamoured with the narrative of the figure within the landscape. The winter before beginning my MFA, I spent
Lisa Birke
six weeks at the Ted Harrison Artist’ s Retreat Society( THARS) that runs a Residency Program at Crag Lake, an isolated community in the Yukon, in northern Canada. It was January— and extremely cold— yet also stunning and undeniably magical. On a whim, while taking a break from painting, I decided to take my tiny point-and-shoot camera and filmed a type of endurance performance
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