artist Helen Mirra--Hourly Directional--Radcliff

Please join us for a conversation with Yukio Lippit, Helen Mirra, and Alise Upitis and a reception for Helen Mirra, Hourly Directional.

Somatic Paradigms: A Conversation with Yukio Lippit, Helen Mirra, and Alise Upitis

September 22, 2014 | 4:15 PM

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House 

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-somatic-paradigms-conversation

·      Yukio Lippit, director of the arts program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute, and professor of the history of art and architecture at Harvard University

·      Helen Mirra

·      Alise Upitis, assistant curator at MIT's List Visual Arts Center

This panel features a discussion about the theme of walkings that has been explored by the Radcliffe Institute’s arts program through the work of Helen Mirra. The conversation will be immediately followed by a reception for Helen Mirra, Hourly Directional.

Fall Exhibition: Helen Mirra, Hourly Directional

Through October 17, 2014

Monday–Friday, 9:30 AM–5 PM

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Byerly Hall Gallery

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/fall-2014-hourly-directional-exhibition

Since 2010 Helen Mirra has been engaged in an ongoing project in which daylong walks generate artworks and vice versa. These walks correspond with an overlapping cycle of exhibitions. At the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Mirra is making an exhibition in two parts—the first installed last spring and the second this fall—that bring to the fore notions of nonredundant repetition, change, and chance, which underlie the cyclic nature of the overall project.

The exhibition takes place in the Byerly Hall Gallery and also in the halls and stairwells of the Institute’s Knafel Center and Schlesinger Library. In Knafel and Schlesinger, sets of text and image, now doubled, appear together in the same locations as the first installation. The works staying in place from the spring are from walkings made in the autumn of 2013 by Mirra in the Italian Dolomites; those newly added are from subsequent walkings made in the spring of 2014 by Margarita Cardosa in the Southern Sierra of Ecuador. The works in Byerly result from walkings made in late June 2014 by Mirra on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.