January 2009
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park opens the first major museum presentation of the collaborative work of choreographer and performer Ann Carlson and video installation artist Mary Ellen Strom.
Through the lens of the historic record and art history, Carlson and Strom employ tactics of spectacle and humor to provide spaces of reflection about this contemporary moment. Carlson/Strom: New Performance Video will be on view at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park till 17 May 2009.
Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom draw on the disciplines of dance and video art and public and conceptual art to create work that merges and expands the boundaries of each field. Both of these award-winning artists have been collaborating on multi-media projects since the early 1990s.
Their work shares concerns for social engagement, historical criticality, and an exploration of the everyday that in turn defines their joint projects. For this exhibition Carlson and Strom will present four recent performance videos from 2007 - 2008 and debut a large-scale installation, Meadowlark, commissioned by DeCordova.
Collectively, their recent work sets up pressing contemporary issues of national identities, environmental concerns, and economic disparities against the backdrop of historical representations of a national landscape.
By using time-based forms of performance and video to ‘read through’ past art, Carlson and Strom create a temporal complex - compressing past and present to reveal intertwined trajectories of art, history, the body, and land.
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