2021 Exhibition
7. Magic Lantern, Live
Mask Required Within the Art Installation Zone (Regardless of Vaccination Status). Social Distancing Encouraged.
Artist Information
The inspiration for Magic Lantern, Live is the literary work of Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time. Proust, in his lengthy volumes, sets up a relationship between literature and the visual experience at the dawn of cinema. They are stories seen through the eyes of a culture not yet fully exposed to the moving image. Magic Lantern, Live is a re-articulating these stories as a live, shadow play. This installation and performance will create a cultural impact for audience members by pointing to a time when we, as visual beings, experienced the magic of moving image for the first time. Unlike a traditional shadow play in which the moving components are props and puppets, the moving components in Magic Lantern, Live will be the lights. A series of miniature LED lights will light the model in sequence revealing aspects of the Proustian world created by the model. The audience will be able to freely navigate between behind the screen, where the performance will take place and in front of the screen, where the effects of the actions (the shadows, reflections, refractions) will create a magical world.
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Magic Lantern is sponsored by:
Won Ju Lim
Won Ju Lim is a multimedia artist whose practice examines the interactions of real and imaginary space as they produce fantasy, memory and longing while questioning the peripheral position of a dislocated and self-alienated subject. The formal and conceptual elements of her work draw from sources ranging from Baroque architecture, fantasy and science fiction films, the urban landscape, and the domestic space. Her recent projects examine the invisible and contested spaces within her own home and expands her continuing research on the writings of Marcel Proust. Evident in her practice is the interest of the peripheral as it questions ideas relating to the dislocation and self-alienation of a subject.
Lim’s work has been exhibited widely in United States and internationally, including San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Detroit, Detroit; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Art, Seoul; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; ZKM Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld; Museum der Moderne, Salzurg; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Casino Luxemboug - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen; and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
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