Kristin Lucas: Temporary Housing for the Despondent Virtual Citizen

September 15 - November 12, 2000


Kristin Lucas, Action, 1997. Video still, single channel video..

ICA inaugurates its new Project Space gallery with an experimental installation by Brooklyn artist Kristin Lucas.

Lucas uses video installation, performance, and the world wide web to explore her complex relationship with automation and the psychological effects of new technologies. Her work often comments on the complicated responses our bodies undergo while interacting with technology, including the hazards of long-time exposure to electro-magnetic fields and the anxiety we experience when playing video games.

At ICA, Lucas will install two arcade games that evoke 1970s-era games such as Space Invaders, a café, and communicative "blobs" that visitors can manipulate around the gallery floor. Lucas's recent exhibitions include "Toys n' Noise," O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria; "Akihabara TV," commandN, Tokyo, Japan; and "Tenacity Cultural Practices in the age of Information and Biotechnology," SI/NY (Swiss Institute), New York. Her web site project, Between a Rock and a Hard Drive, © 1998, commissioned by Dia Center for the Arts, New York, can be found at www.diacenter.org/lucas. This interactive work presents virtual "waiting spaces" such as airport lounges, laundry rooms, and gas stations that replicate some of the frustrations and opportunities associated with using the web.

Curator: Claudia Gould, Director, ICA.

Support for this exhibition has generously been provided by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Advisory Board, friends, members of the Institute of Contemporary Art and the University of Pennsylvania. (Information complete as of July 15, 2000.)


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