Slurb, Marina Zurkow, 2009
Marina Zurkow (US)
Marina was in residency at D6 Arts in June 2009.
Marina makes psychological narratives about humans and their relationship to animals, plants and the weather. These take the form of multi-channel videos, customized multi-screen computer pieces, animated cartoons, interactive mobile works, and pop objects.
During her residency, Marina developed Friends and Enemies: Nature_2.0, a wide reaching arts and science project that explores the human impact on the environment we live in and focuses on issues surrounding invasive species, biodiversity and consumption.
The multifaceted project encompasses Mesocosm Northumberland, a large-scale animated work representing one year of real time compressed into a continuous 6 day cycle, inspired by and set on the moors of Northumberland; and Eat thy Enemy, a travelling food cart peddling foreign cuisine with a local charge: American Grey Squirrel Samosas with Himalayan Balsam Chutney, Asian Knotweed Turnovers, and other street food whose main ingredients are considered to be aggressively invasive species in the UK.
The project innovatively but sensitively challenges the prejudices and preconceptions towards ‘foreign invasion’ using invasive and native species within nature to address wider issues around migration, identity and acceptance.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Marina uses life science, materials, and technologies, including food, software, animation, clay and other biomaterials, to foster intimate connections between people and non-human agents. She works as a founding member of several ongoing collaborative projects, including Dear Climate, More&More Unlimited, Climoji, and Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies.
Zurkow's recent solo exhibitions include bitforms gallery, New York and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; her work has been featured at Storm King Art Center, New York; 21C Museum, Louisville; the 7th Moscow Biennale; FACT, Liverpool; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; 01SJ Biennial, San Jose; Sundance Film Festival, Utah; and the Seoul Media City Biennial, Korea, among others. Her public art engagements have been supported by Creative Time, New York; LACE, Los Angeles; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; The New Museum’s Ideas City, New York; Northern Lights.mn, Minneapolis; The Artist’s Institute, New York; 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, California; Rice University, Houston; Boston University; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and Baruch College, New York.
Zurkow is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow. She has also been granted awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital. She is represented by bitforms gallery. She is currently a fellow at ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and a teaching fellow at Bennington College.
Marina makes psychological narratives about humans and their relationship to animals, plants and the weather. These take the form of multi-channel videos, customized multi-screen computer pieces, animated cartoons, interactive mobile works, and pop objects.
During her residency, Marina developed Friends and Enemies: Nature_2.0, a wide reaching arts and science project that explores the human impact on the environment we live in and focuses on issues surrounding invasive species, biodiversity and consumption.
The multifaceted project encompasses Mesocosm Northumberland, a large-scale animated work representing one year of real time compressed into a continuous 6 day cycle, inspired by and set on the moors of Northumberland; and Eat thy Enemy, a travelling food cart peddling foreign cuisine with a local charge: American Grey Squirrel Samosas with Himalayan Balsam Chutney, Asian Knotweed Turnovers, and other street food whose main ingredients are considered to be aggressively invasive species in the UK.
The project innovatively but sensitively challenges the prejudices and preconceptions towards ‘foreign invasion’ using invasive and native species within nature to address wider issues around migration, identity and acceptance.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Marina uses life science, materials, and technologies, including food, software, animation, clay and other biomaterials, to foster intimate connections between people and non-human agents. She works as a founding member of several ongoing collaborative projects, including Dear Climate, More&More Unlimited, Climoji, and Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies.
Zurkow's recent solo exhibitions include bitforms gallery, New York and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; her work has been featured at Storm King Art Center, New York; 21C Museum, Louisville; the 7th Moscow Biennale; FACT, Liverpool; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; 01SJ Biennial, San Jose; Sundance Film Festival, Utah; and the Seoul Media City Biennial, Korea, among others. Her public art engagements have been supported by Creative Time, New York; LACE, Los Angeles; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; The New Museum’s Ideas City, New York; Northern Lights.mn, Minneapolis; The Artist’s Institute, New York; 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, California; Rice University, Houston; Boston University; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and Baruch College, New York.
Zurkow is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow. She has also been granted awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital. She is represented by bitforms gallery. She is currently a fellow at ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and a teaching fellow at Bennington College.
