Dislocation

 

Description

New York-based artist Laurie O’Brien creates a miniature cinema installation inside a birdhouse for the Evanston Terrain Biennial. For the installation, O’Brien reimagines a fractured narrative consisting of moving shadows and still images within a diorama that incorporates a miniature film as a portal of entrapment for the viewer. The viewer navigates the entry point for an investigation of contemporary ideas around flight, home and our shifting world.

 

Bio

Laurie O’Brien is multi-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, performance and animation.  Her films and installations have screened and been shown in galleries nationally and internationally.  She is the creator of the Peephole Cinema, a “miniature cinema” collective with satellite projects in three cities:  San Francisco, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles.  In each city, silent film shorts are screened 24/7 through a dime-sized peephole installed in a public location.  O’Brien received an MFA from Cal Arts and currently resides between Brooklyn and Rochester.  O’Brien is an Assistant Professor of Visual Media at RIT in the Photography Department.

http://laurieobrien.com