For those of you who can’t make the show at Wave Hill, here is one of the two videos in the show. The Day video is coming soon!!

“For her multi-media project Half Life, Parker built a scale model of the southern section of Wave Hill’s Glyndor House, which contains the Sunroom Project Space, and placed it in the nearby Woodland from March to August 2011. A motion-sensor camera was fixed on the structure, recording the comings and goings of various fauna that live onsite, as well as changes to the flora over that period. Parker edited the short bursts of high-definition video into two time-lapse sequences, one day and one night, which are displayed with the weathered and dilapidated model, serving as a witness to the unseen changes in the landscape.”

4 Minute Excerpt from Caitlin Parker on Vimeo.

This is a 4 minute excerpt of what will be a ten minute long time lapse video. These four minutes span the months of August through January, the ten minute final version will span exactly one year, May 2009 through May 2010. Motion sensor cameras capture this miniature house deteriorating, seasons coming and going, curious animals passing through, and plants growing and dying. The stills captured during the year have been selectively edited into the final video, titled “Let the Outside In”.

Video in progress…

Hey! The screening on Governors Island was really fun! If you didn’t get a chance to get out there and see it, here is the video of mine that was included.

Regression from Caitlin Parker on Vimeo.

My video “Regression” will be a part of this screening on Satruday, hope you can come along!

August 15th – from 11am to 6pm VIDEO SUMMER SCREENING II Ars Sublimis Curated by Javier Cano
Governors Island, Building #11 – Basement Participant artists: Yorgo Alexopoulos, Eelco Brand, Jo Milne, Giuliana Origgi de la Flor, Caitlin Parker and Eva Teppe.“What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.” Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Representation, 1819 Vol I) Is it possible to speak about the Aesthetics of the Sublime that defined the romantic epoch in an era characterized by the loss of values? Can we still give another lecture to the feelings for the awe of the infinity of space, of that superlative feeling between extreme greatness and fear? Schopenhauer, in the first volume of his The World as Will and Representation, in order to clarify the concept of the Sublime, goes through its different stages of transition. Despite some notable resurgence in the 1980’s and 1990, prompted by French postmodernist Jean-Francois Lyotard, the aesthetic of the Sublime is largely absent from contemporary arena, and almost forgotten in XXI century debates. That traditional concept of Landscape like a space of freedom is questioned after modernity, emerging as a postmodern landscape dominated by degradation, and where the dystopian landscape has substituted the utopia of the idyllic. Can we still speak about the Sublime Experience, or some categories like Sublime or postsublime have faded in their own denomination? In a context of a natural landscape, Governors Island, this series of videos represent an attempt to arise this debate questioning and diving into the Schopenhaueresque’s phases, from the simple feeling of beauty to the Fullest Feeling of Sublime.

This is a still from another video of mine called Regression which will be included in Summer Video Screening II, as part of the series Ars Sublimis, curated by Javier Cano and happening on August 15. The screening will be on Governor’s Island, it is part of the Orensanz Summer Museum. You can find out more about the Orensanz Museum and their summer program on Governor’s Island here. I will post more details soon, it sounds like it will be a lot of fun. I will also post this video next week for those of you who don’t live in NYC or who can’t make it.

I will be heading upstate and checking the camera this weekend so on Monday look out for some new images of who has visited the house these past few weeks. Can’t wait to see what animals have been passing through!