“100 Pink Smoke flares twice”, by Raphaele Shirley is an ephemeral installation created with 200 pink smoke signal flares. The flares, lit simultaneously, build a wall of smoke that temporarily masks the landscape behind it. This ephemeral mass of color marks the appearance and disappearance of natural and urban settings as they are transformed my man’s hand. “100 Pink Smoke flares: twice”, offers a reflection on nature’s beauty and timelessness, landscapes in distress, as well as it underlines their state of emergency in our current age of Anthropocene. The artwork oscillates between abstraction and figuration referring to romantic era landscape paintings and minimalistic language simultaneously. A musical procession leads viewers to the site before the remotely triggered flares ignite. From this initial gathering through the smoke’s final dispersal, the complete experience unfolds over 30-40 minutes.
In association with Catskill Art Space.
Date
Jun 21, 6:00pm
Featuring
Raphaele Shirley
Wisconsin-born Raphaele Shirley is a multimedia artist who lives and works in New York State. Since 1993, she has been dedicated to creative placemaking, working at the intersection of art and technology. Her practice spans sculpture, light art, public art, collaborative works, and performance. Her solo and collaborative projects have been presented at venues such as The Queens Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, Catskill Art Space, The Emily Harvey Foundation in New York, The HayArt Gallery in Yerevan, Armenia, the NCCA, the 2nd Moscow Biennale in Moscow, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2023, received the Wave Farm Media Arts Grant with composer Algis Kizys for their collaborative performance piece 20F. She has held residencies at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center with Rhys Chatham and GH Hovagimyan, and participated in The Arctic Circle expeditionary residency program in 2009 and 2010.
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