Scope BLN

presents

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MEMORY THEATER

 

Performance by Claudia Hart

 

Monday, July 17 at 8:00 p.m.

 

Since the late 1980s, Claudia Hart, an artist and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has used 3D simulations technology to produce subversive works on identity and experience that cross the virtual and physical worlds. 

 

Hart thinks of herself as a mixed reality artist, and her art takes shape through tangible installations and sculptures, projection-mapped performances, and what she calls “Digital Combines” - hybrid works that combine NFT encrypted contracts and tangible paintings. These projects explore the poetic threshold between the concrete and abstract. 

 

Her new live performance, entitled MEMORY THEATER (2023) embodies this as a half hour theatrical monologue combined with animations consisting of experimental avatar dance, video, and earlier works culled from her personal archive spanning 35 years of continuous media-art practice. In it, she recites fable-like anecdotes that hybrid Grimms fairy tales with art history and personal memoir, bringing together her past, present, and imagined selves. 

 

claudiahart.com