Terry Karson: Human/Nature: A Retrospective (1950-2017)
It has been seven years since Terry Karson passed away in 2017 (1950-2017). I was with him when he died after his brief bout with cancer, and my promise to him was to carry on his legacy to the best of my ability. I am now in the stage following his death to consider how I might best accomplish this while at the same time, focus on moving our shared artistic vision forward through my own work.
Launched New Website: Cave
Cave is a collaborative, interdisciplinary artscience installation that merges the mind of 35,000-year-old cave art with state-of-the-art brain research. Our team will create an interactive, multisensory work in which viewer-participant (VP) brainwaves (through the use of current neurofeedback technology) will generate light and sound in an immersive filmic and sonic environment that echoes cultural memory and connects our most rudimentary tools with our most technological ones. The VP informs and becomes part of the artwork, thus blurring the perceptual boundaries between art and artist, and unifying the internal and external cave.The opening reception is on August 18th, 2017, at the Holter Art Museum in Helena, MT.
Cave
Project Inspiration:
In October, 2013, National Geographic published an article entitled
Were the First Artists Mostly Women?
Handprints in eight cave sites in France and Spain were analyzed by Dean Snow of Penn State University, and three quarters of those handprints were left by women. This represents a new genesis of art history and women’s contribution to it. “People have made a lot of unwarranted assumptions about who made these things, and why”, stated Dean Snow. Perhaps, instead of incantations for the ritual hunt, the cave paintings are humanity’s earliest expressions of empathy, mutuality and deep interdependence with the non-human world.Is our relationship to human-made technologies akin to the predator-prey relationship primary to early humans?
