Aviva Rahmani at Ear to the Earth 09

EMF Studios
Creative Resource Center

Encounter with

Aviva Rahmani

Multimedia artist

Friday, October 22, 2010, 7—8:30

307 7th Avenue Ste 1402 (at 28th Street)
New York City

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About the event


Desecration and Resurrection are companion six-minute stop-action digital animations for split screen projection. The subject is one small marsh returning to life, even as another, vast area may be destroyed. Together, they are a statement about ecological choice. The films will be presented in conjunction with a 45-minute workshop on Trigger Point Theory, Aviva Rahmani’s art and science initiative for land and water restoration, developed from the Ghost Nets (ghostnets.com) project.

This work is based on the premise that art plays a part in selecting small sites whose restoration can effect systemic healing for large ecosystems. This idea is based on two decades of the artist’s observations at wetlands sites such as the Ghost Nets project, which restored a former coastal town dump on a remote fishing island in the Gulf of Maine. The methodology of this work combines science and art: an artist's skills observe, focus, interpret and catalyze what Rahmani calls 'environmental triage'; an activist ecological performance for sites that have been fragmented and destroyed.

Still from Resurrection

 

About the artist


Aviva Rahmani, Affiliate with the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and recipient of the Arts and Healing Network 2009 award, has over 40 years experience in installation and activist art environmental remediation earthworks. Rahmani's work has been exhibited and represented in numerous galleries, museums and books internationally, and has catalyzed the restoration of a dumpsite to a flourishing wetland system (Ghost Nets) and a USDA expenditure of $500,000 to restore 26 acres of critical wetlands habitat (Blue Rocks).