Wreck & Hover: a pneumatic installation
May 12 – June 3, 2006
Exhibition, Artist Talk
About the Program
Karen Kazmer's Wreck & Hover: a pneumatic installation featured a kinetic sculpture with two mutable soft yellow luminescent forms that connected with the gallery space and viewers on a multi-sensory level. The two forms or "breathing wrecking balls" were made of lightweight, semi-transparent nylon stretch fabric and plastic corset boning and were suspended from the ceiling. The inflating and deflating forms swung into the gallery's windows and wall, threateningly annoying, persisting, and swishing, allowing users to pass through only during the deflation cycles. The artist had been investigating wrecking balls and anxiety for a few years. An artist talk was presented on May 23, 2006.Artist
Karen KazmerIdentifier
2006.0512 WRECollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (second location)116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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