Installation
A new multimedia installation by artists Raquel Salvatella de Prada, Merrill Shatzman (Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies) and poet Deborah Pope (Department of English) will be on view in the Corridor Gallery, East Duke Building on Duke’s East Campus starting in January 2010. The installation features the poetry of Pope, the letterforms and digital prints of Shatzman and the animation of Salvatella de Prada, highlighting the potential of digital media in translating the written word. Supported by a Council for the Arts Collaboration Development Grant and the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, this multi-faceted project displays the collaborative work of these three Duke professors in exploring the interactive relationship between origianl visual artwork with original creative text. The resulting exhibition “ART” reflects the artist’s own interactive, interdisciplinary, individual and collective dynamic aspiring to simultaneously enact and celebrate the essence and process of creating itself: Art in all its rhythms of paradox, play, persistence, its rough turns and joys: its restless circling, transcendent moments of ephemeral poise, and ceaseless seeking.