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...graduate of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department and a multi-disciplinary artist, Wing is currently organizing an event called Bizarre Animals at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Using the building and its exhibits as their inspiration, Wing and a team of contemporary artists will take over the Museum on the night of March 26, installing the space with a variety of multi-media “art interventions.” Billed as a night that “will transform the Harvard Museum of Natural History into a laboratory, library, exploratorium, and stage...
...open-ended, site-specific nature of the event has led to the development of a variety of projects. The team that created Bizarre Animals includes twelve artists in fields ranging from performance to poetry, sound design to video installation, and everything in between. Some of the projects that resulted are as delightfully odd as the exhibits that inspired them...
Beyond professionals and alumni like Feehan, some undergraduates will also have the chance to participate in the exhibit. Prior to the event, Wing and fellow VES alumna M. Elizabeth Glynn ’03 will conduct several cooperative workshops with undergraduates in which participants will discuss methods of documentation—a topic that has interested Wing since she studied photography as a student in VES. Her plan is to explore major questions about the relationship between performance, documentation, and their role in a museum environment. The seminars will culminate with the undergraduates deciding how to document Bizarre Animals...
Certain undergraduates will also have work on display during the event. Rebecca S. Lieberman ’10, a VES concentrator, will exhibit part of her thesis: a two-hour video installation that happens to dovetail with the themes of Bizarre Animals...
...interesting in how the animal becomes a replica and a representation of itself,” Lieberman says. “In my particular video, I address the relationship between the process of taxidermy as a mode of representation and art and sculpture.” During the event, the video installation will play alongside an actual taxidermied deer, highlighting how her work comments on the “politics of display” inherent in taxidermy...