Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison

[sasah zib]

https://www.parkeharrison.com/statement
"Staged images offer endless possibilities for exploration while offering viewers personal interpretation. By allowing viewers to complete the story before them, we allow agency to take hold within them. We develop layers of duality: hope and despair, success and failure, desire and distain, destruction and stewardship. "

"In Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison’s exhibition and book, The Architect’s Brother, the artists create an imaginary dystopia in which a sole survivor tries to mend a broken earth. In sepia-toned multi-media photographs, they envision the attempts of a figure in an ill-fitting black suit to perform such tasks as cleaning clouds, creating machines to listen to the earth, and transcribing the stories of trees. Creating visual parables about the possibility of healing the planet, the ParkeHarrisons invent a variety of absurd solutions to their bleak scenes of post-apocalyptic environmental devastation." https://sites.middlebury.edu/landandlens/2016/10/20/robert-and-shana-parkeharrison-tree-sonata-1999/
[ there is a video off this page]

them at Interlochen; interaction with early career students:



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[Pieter12]

Yech. Not my cup off tea.

 

[Valerie]

I've loved their work since the beginning and was fortunate enough to listen to them speak at a SPE conference. Thanks for posting the clip!

https://www.parkeharrison.com

 

[awty]

Cool. Had to turn the sound off, dialogue turns me off.
I like the avant garde style, but a bit too lite and a little too cliché for me....but what would I know.

 

[sasah zib]

@Valerie I think they have much to offer by way of encouragement and examples.
I enjoy the Architect's Brother. Prints from that remind me of some of Keith Carter's work.

I believe they visited? exhibited recently at AndersonRanch [some about AR, for those unfamiliar] https://www.andersonranch.org/programs/artists-in-residence-program/current-artists-in-residence/
[since I'm unable to PM, several questions about discussion and teaching will have to wait. ]

 

[Mick Fagan]

Very interesting, thanks for posting the link to the clip.

Mick.