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Date: 2001 Medium: Installation

Knots + Surfaces

Diana Thater

Knots + Surfaces

Diana Thater
Knots + Surfaces (Version #1), 2001
Installation consisting of five-channel video projection, video wall with
16 monitors (color, silent), wall with color filters
41 min 25 sec (videos)
Overall dimensions variable
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection

Installation view: Knots + Surfaces, DIA Center for the Art, New York, United States of America, 2001

Photo: Frederik Nilsen | 1301 PE, Los Angeles

Knots + Surfaces - 2

Diana Thater
Knots + Surfaces (Version #1), 2001
Installation consisting of five-channel video projection, video wall with
16 monitors (color, silent), wall with color filters
41 min 25 sec (videos)
Overall dimensions variable
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection

Installation view: Knots + Surfaces, DIA Center for the Art, New York, United States of America, 2001

Photo: Frederik Nilsen | 1301 PE, Los Angeles

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Date
2004
Medium
Installation consisting of 5-channel video projection, video wall with 16 monitors (color, silent), wall with color filters
Dimension
41 min 25 sec (videos) Overall dimensions variable
Credit

TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection

This artwork is part of the donation and long-term loan from TBA21 to the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Details

In Knots + Surfaces Diana Thater follows mathematician Barbara Shipman into the six-dimensional spatial world of bees, which they create by dancing out directions for their hive-mates. Thater translates this abstract model of space in her installation, incorporating into it her observations and representation of the species. Broken up by the architecture, the hexagonal form of the hive appears as a formal reference in the five-part projection. She then places a flower opposite the wall of 16 monitors showing the dancing movements of the bees, as the destination their directions might be indicating. In the space of the installation, in which we are completely immersed, observing our own movements and how our shadows become part of the display, Thater creates a complex picture of the relationship between animal and human, of nature as cultural representation.

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Diana Thater