In/Visible Jen Graves's Weekly Conversation with People in Art

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

In/Visible: The Morisons: It's Not About What You Have, It's About What You Know

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:47 PM

In/Visible: The Morisons: It's Not About What You Have, It's About What You Know

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The art of Heather and Ivan Morison seems left behind from another world: a jacknifed semi-truck with cut flowers spilling out the back; a cabin in a park where visitors meet a Host who has a limited vocabulary; and, now, a giant sculpture made of charred, sooty wood, shaped in the form of a kite. It leans on the architecture of the Bellevue gallery Open Satellite, seemingly having fallen onto this place. But from where? Why? Can we use it to get back there?

Listen in as Heather talks about ruins, Arthog (the ancient wood they bought in Wales), and the failure of British prisoners to survive in Tasmania. The starting point is Frost King, the sculpture at Open Satellite named after the first kite ever to lift a person (1905; it was designed by Alexander Graham Bell). If you could escape, where would you go? If you couldn't, do you know how to survive where you are?

(My written piece on Frost King here.)

 

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