Marina Zurkow: Friends, Enemies, and Others

Marina Zurkow: Friends, Enemies, and Others

September 17, 2011 – April 1, 2012

This is the inaugural exhibition in the Montclair Art Museum's New Directions series. Curated by Alexandra Schwartz, MAM's first curator of contemporary art, the exhibition marks the world premiere of Zurkow's series Friends and Enemies, and comprises 16 works on paper and five digital animation videos, two of which are shown on the Museum's grounds. The centerpiece of the exhibition, Friends and Enemies, comprises a 146-hour-long video, Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK), and related prints, which will be shown together in the Marion Mann Roberts Gallery. A 30-second preview of the Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) digital animation is shown below and Winter, a print from the series is shown on the left.

Zurkow makes psychological narratives about humans and their relationship to animals, plants, and the weather. These take the form of multichannel videos, customized multiscreen computer pieces, animated cartoons, interactive mobile works, and pop objects. With these works, Zurkow seeks to spur a conversation around the relationship between nativist views toward invasives and anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Image: Marina Zurkow, Winter, from the series Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK), 2011. One from a series of 4 archival pigment prints. Courtesy the artist.

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Marina Zurkow on Friends, Enemies and Others, 2011

Director: Mido Emad
Director of Photography: Eduardo Whittington
Production Assistant: Rudy Mancuso
Music: Lem Jay Ignacio
9:09 min. loop (color, sound)

Marina Zurkow speaks about three of the digital animations from Marina Zurkow: Friends, Enemies, and Others, including Slurb, Weights and Measures, and Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK).

 

Marina Zurkow

Clip from Mesocosm (Northumberland UK), 2011

Digital animation (color, sound), 146-hour cycle
Edition of 5, plus 2 artist’s proofs
Additional animators: Xue Hou, Andrea Lira, Laewook Kang
Code: Veronique Brossier
Occasional sound design by Lem Jay Ignacio
Leigh Bowery modeled by Lawrence Goldhuber
Courtesy of the artist

 

 

Marina Zurkow: Friends, Enemies, and Others Opening Event

September 17, 2011
Timelapse by: Andy Foster