Laurie Beth Clark

Laurie Beth Clark was raised in New York City. She initially studied painting at Hampshire College and received her B.A. in 1976. She has an M.A. in Visual Arts from the University of New Mexico (1981) and an M.F.A. in Art from Rutgers University (1983). Since 1985, Clark has been a Professor in the Art Department at the University of Wis-consin at Madison where she teaches studio courses in Video, Performance and Installation. She also teaches graduate seminars in Visual Culture and provides leadership for the campus-wide Visual Culture initiative. Clark produces large scale, site-specific performances and installations as well as single channel video tapes.

KinderTransit

My point of departure for this project is the memories of children who grew up alongside atrocities but were not themselves either victims or old enough to be agents. This could include German children during the Holocaust, white children in South Africa during apartheid, Jewish children in Israel today, pioneer children in the early history of the United States, etc. What I’m interested in are not blatant recollections of violence but subtle and decidedly childish images. The project consists of seven unique posters placed in bus shelters. Each poster has a short text taken from a novel or memoir and an illustration of a familiar object.

This is the third in a series of works that I have been developing in Germany that remember the Holocaust together with other genocides. These creative projects parallel my academic research into site-specific trauma memorials, comparing the evolving treatment of the World Trade center site in New York with memorials such as slave forts in West Africa, concentration camps in Europe, and the atomic blast sites Japan.

Sieben Plakate an sieben Haltestellen der HEAG in der Darmstädter Innenstadt

Vogelfrei wird gefördert von DSM und der HEAG Verkehrs AG