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Hendl Helen Mirra [1] is an American conceptual artist. "[Like Henry David Thoreau, she is a] maximalist in a minimalist robe", with an idiosyncratic practice. [2] She is engaged with ideas common to buddhist [3] [4] [5] and pragmatist [6] [7] philosophies, and since 2008 her art practice has been integrated with walking. [8] She has said of walking: "It is an unskilled activity, and a modest activity, and a free activity, and an always-available activity, and an equipment-free activity, and an active activity." [9] In an essay on Mirra's work, Yukio Lippit described her engagement thus: "Mirra’s practice champions walking as a specific form of thinking that bypasses language. Indeed, one senses that she shares with Zen Buddhists in particular a deep skepticism towards language as an authentic mechanism of discovery." [10] At the same time, she has often worked with language as a primary material. [11] [12]
Hendl Mirra has worked in diverse media including weaving, [13] writing - particularly indexes, [14] [15] [16] experimental music, [17] [18] sculpture, 16mm film, and video. [19] "Environmental belonging" has been a persistent theme, [20] while keeping within a restricted palette. [21] Her first one-person institutional exhibition, Sky-wreck, at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 2001, was a indigo-dyed textile sculpture of a section of the sky, imagined as part of a geodesic structure. [22] [23] In addition to John Cage, [24] Stanley Brouwn, André Cadere, and Douglas Huebler are key influences. [9]
She has an exhibition history in North and South America, Europe, and Japan, [25] [26] and participated in broad international exhibitions such as the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th São Paulo Art Biennial and the 50th Venice Biennial. A fifteen-year (1995-2009) survey of her work, Edge Habitat, was presented in 2014 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, and the corresponding publication Edge Habitat Materials was published by Whitewalls. [27]
She was a Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago (2001-2005) [28] and a Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University until 2013. [29] She has been an artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley, [30] and a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. [31] She lives in Northern California. [32]
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Hendl Helen Mirra | |
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Education | Bennington College, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Hendl Helen Mirra [1] is an American conceptual artist. "[Like Henry David Thoreau, she is a] maximalist in a minimalist robe", with an idiosyncratic practice. [2] She is engaged with ideas common to buddhist [3] [4] [5] and pragmatist [6] [7] philosophies, and since 2008 her art practice has been integrated with walking. [8] She has said of walking: "It is an unskilled activity, and a modest activity, and a free activity, and an always-available activity, and an equipment-free activity, and an active activity." [9] In an essay on Mirra's work, Yukio Lippit described her engagement thus: "Mirra’s practice champions walking as a specific form of thinking that bypasses language. Indeed, one senses that she shares with Zen Buddhists in particular a deep skepticism towards language as an authentic mechanism of discovery." [10] At the same time, she has often worked with language as a primary material. [11] [12]
Hendl Mirra has worked in diverse media including weaving, [13] writing - particularly indexes, [14] [15] [16] experimental music, [17] [18] sculpture, 16mm film, and video. [19] "Environmental belonging" has been a persistent theme, [20] while keeping within a restricted palette. [21] Her first one-person institutional exhibition, Sky-wreck, at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 2001, was a indigo-dyed textile sculpture of a section of the sky, imagined as part of a geodesic structure. [22] [23] In addition to John Cage, [24] Stanley Brouwn, André Cadere, and Douglas Huebler are key influences. [9]
She has an exhibition history in North and South America, Europe, and Japan, [25] [26] and participated in broad international exhibitions such as the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th São Paulo Art Biennial and the 50th Venice Biennial. A fifteen-year (1995-2009) survey of her work, Edge Habitat, was presented in 2014 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, and the corresponding publication Edge Habitat Materials was published by Whitewalls. [27]
She was a Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago (2001-2005) [28] and a Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University until 2013. [29] She has been an artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley, [30] and a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. [31] She lives in Northern California. [32]
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