The Hazards of Love, 2011
Part of Hazardous Materials, a video series.
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The Hazards of Love, 2011
Part of Hazardous Materials, a video series.
This video is password protected. Email emilycorazon@gmail.com to request a password.
Some Food We Could Not Eat
video, 2011
and act calmly :: artist’s statement
It is hard to know what is safe. It is difficult to determine what one must do to preserve oneself. Which is better: to plunge in or to seal off? To engage or to disengage? Each option carries its own hazards.
and act calmly explores human systems and their fault lines in order to more deeply consider the implications of our interconnectedness on this shared planet. The enormity of recent man-made disasters poses a question to all humanity: what is there to do? Some fashion their shorn hair into oil booms and ship them to the Gulf to protect the coastline from advancing oil. Others pack themselves into buses and trucks and work in the spaces between the oil and the coast, between the tar and the sea birds. Some address the fault lines from within the system, as educators or advocates. Still others don protective suits and stay home, but do not necessarily stay safe.
At times it may seem as if we each do so little, but together, we have created this world— its beauty and its atrocity.
“Please do not overreact, and act calmly.”
-Japanese Chief Cabinet spokesman Yukio Edano 3.21.11
Installation view of:
and act calmly
April 18-22, 2011 at the University of Virginia.
Featuring Dynamic Dinosaurs, 2011. 1985 Teacher’s Curriculum Guide, tar from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill collected near Grand Isle, LA.
Installation view of: and act calmly April 18-22, 2011 at the University of Virginia. Featuring Dynamic Dinosaurs, 2011.
Installation view of: and act calmly April 18-22, 2011 at the University of Virginia.
Installation view of: and act calmly April 18-22, 2011 at the University of Virginia.
For Absorption, 2011. Delstar Industrial netting, Stockings, Human and animal hair collected by volunteers in New Orleans.
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detail of:
For Absorption, 2011. Delstar Industrial netting, Stockings, Human and animal hair collected by volunteers in New Orleans.
detail of:
For Absorption, 2011. Delstar Industrial netting, Stockings, Human and animal hair collected by volunteers in New Orleans.
Installation view of: and act calmly April 18-22, 2011 at the University of Virginia. (featuring the Hazardous Materials video series on flat screen monitors).
Installation view of: and act calmly April 18-22, 2011 at the University of Virginia. (featuring Birds, Book Three and For Absorption).
Installation view of: and act calmly April 18-22, 2011 at the University of Virginia. (Featuring Birds, Book Three and a view of the far wall with photographs by Debra Cohen.)
Installation view of: and act calmly April 18-22, 2011 at the University of Virginia. (Featuring Birds, Book Three).
Installation view of:
and act calmly
April 18-22, 2011 at the University of Virginia.
