Eyewitness
October 14 -December 1
Axiom
141 Green Street
Boston MA, 02130

Downrush
Video & Braille Installation

Downrush explores the psychological and religious currents that define human conflict. The religious texts are uniformly presented in braille directly accessible to the blind. The image of the falling body, available to the sighted, generates a shared soundscape that permeates the space. Downrush exposes our complicity and questions our passivity as witnesses to current events, conflicts, war, genocide and the resultant loss of lives.

The Puzzle Master

This multimedia opera, a retelling of the Dedalus and Icarus myth, is set on an imaginary Caribbean island. Five singers perform in counterpoint with layers of computer-manipulated 5.0 channel surround sound and multiple video projections. 

Music by Eric Chasalow ; libretto by F.D. Reeve; video by Denise Marika. Featuring performances by Jennifer Ashe, Donald Wilkinson, Pamela Dellal, Matthew Anderson, and Paul Guttry. Eric Hewitt conducts.  Staging by Barbara Cassidy. The Puzzle Master is supported by the Poses Fund and the Theodore and Jane Norman Fund and is part of the 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival.

Performances are Sat, May 5 and Sun, May 6, 8:00 p.m.  The Laurie Theater, Spingold Theater Center – campus of Brandeis University, Waltham

tickets are $20 general admission; $10 students and seniors

For tickets call, 781.736.3400

Summer Street Solstice
The Boston Convention Center
415 Summer Street
Boston, MA 02210
June 21, 2007

Leg
Single Channel for Flat Screen

ARTventures
The Revolving Museum
22 Shattuck Street, Lowell, MA 01852
October 7th, 2006Unearthed
Video projection

The Revolving Museum launched the ARTventures: Hamilton Mill Ruin project. This documentary film project transformed an abandoned mill complex into a public art spectacle that included a parade, sculptural and scientific installations, music, dance, and writing performances and large-scale video projections.

Photo Documentation by Meghan Moore

Common Language
Medellin, Colombia
December 21, 2006 Gallerie 10+36
Carrera 41#10-36, El Poblado
Curated by Adriana Rios Leg
One Channel Video Gnaw
One Channel Video

Why the Nude
October 5 - 31, 2006
The Art Students league of New York
215, West 57th St, N.Y

Hangin
Video projection

“The senses: Selection from the permanent collection”
January 22 - April 9, 2006
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont , CA.

The artists in this exhibition, in myriad ways, interrogate and complicate our understanding of the distinct qualities of individual senses. Their work incorporates the haptic and the aural, recalls the corrosive action of chemicals, evokes the splintering of light, and plays with conceptions of the weighty and weightless.Denise Marika (PO’77) projects tender flesh onto steel, framed and bisected with fur. Grunting exhalations mark the effort of her repetitive movements.Bisected
Video projection

“Refraction” Spring 2006
Caprice Horn Gallery, ,Berlin, Germany.

Gnaw
Video projection

ORPHEUS X
world premiere
at Zero Arrow Theatre
www.amrep.org/orpheusx

video by Denise Marika
music and text by Rinde Eckert
directed by Robert Woodruff

set design by David Zinn and Denise Marika
costume design by David Zinn
lighting design by Christopher Akerlind
sound design by Dave Remedios

The American Repertory Theatre's Artistic Director Robert Woodruff joins renowned composer/performer Rinde Eckert to create this music-theatre piece inspired by the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. The poet Orpheus risked death to rescue Eurydice from the underworld. They had almost reached the surface when he looked back and lost her forever.

"Orpheus X also features the work of acclaimed video artist Denise Marika. Widely considered an innovator in the field of video installation, Marika designs a video installation, which serves as an integral component of the play's environment. This marks the first time that Marika has presented her work in conjunction with a theatrical performance.

The cast of Orpheus X includes Rinde Eckert as Orpheus, Suzan Hanson as Eurydice, and John Kelly as John and Persephone. The band includes Timothy Feeney, Jeff Lieberman, Blake Newman, and Wendy Richman. The American Repertory Theatre's production of Orpheus X is playing March 25-April 23 at Zero Arrow Theatre, located at the corner of Mass Ave. and Arrow St. in Cambridge."The artist would like to knowledge, cameraman James MacAllister, assistant video design and editing Leah Gelpe, photo documentation Charles Erickson and Steve Briggs.

DENISE MARIKA
BODY ACTIONS

Schiltkamp Gallery
Clark University
Traina Center for the Arts
92 Downing Street
Worcester, MA September 19-November 6, 2005

Artist Talk
Thursday, October 27, 4:30 pm
Sponsored by the
Higgins School of Humanities
Reception following

Gallery Hours:
Monday-Thursday, 9 am - 7 pm
Friday, 9 am - 5 pm
Saturday, 12 - 5 pm
Sunday, 12 - 7 pm

Information: 508/793-7113

DENISE MARIKA
VIDEO INSTALLATIONS
Howard Yezerski Gallery

April 22 - May 24, 2005
Opening April 22, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
In the video installation, Detritus, a figure is crouched amidst the turbulence of demolition. Within the deteriorating urban landscape, the jaws of a crane grab at the body stirring up clouds of dust and debris. The figure is occasionally obscured by haze, remaining unaware of the surrounding danger. Framed by steel channel the projected image extends downward into the floor, reflected in a mirror that runs its length. Piles of newspapers bearing the same images of destruction spill onto the floor inviting the viewer to participate by carrying the image away with them.Detritus, the newspaper edition, is a sequence of images of repeated loss and destruction imbedded as news, unexplained. Distributed to 50,000 readers within the Weekly Dig, this conceptual work is based on the free dissemination of art and of news, blurring the distinction between the two and underscoring the power of free speech and expression. This public intervention functions as a shared visual memory of loss in the hopes of peace.

Aspect is a biannual DVD magazine of new media art.
The mission of the publication is to distribute and archive works of time-based art.

The Artist as Content started out as a survey of self-portraiture in new media. It quickly became apparent, however, that the role of the artist in new media has gone far beyond that of simply subject or even creator. The body, actions, ideas and personas of the artist can now be expressed and explored in many subtle and evocative ways. The shifting perception of the role of the artist within the artwork, during and after its creation, has advanced in tandem with the exploration of motion, time, and interactivity in art. The artists in this issue appear in the artworks in vastly different ways, and at times you may have to look hard to find them, but their presence has an unmistakable impact on the work.

Included in this issue:

JIM CAMPBELL: Self-portrait of Paul DeMarinis
with audio commentary by Marisa Olson

JUAN DELGADO: Who are you entertaining to?
with audio commentary by Dr. Elizabeth Cowie

CHARLES GICK: Draught Table
with audio commentary by Elizabeth K. Menon

DENISE MARIKA: Detritus / Bisected
with audio commentary by George Fifield

CHRISTOPHER MINER: Making God Happy
with audio commentary by Bill Arning

ERIKA VAN NATTA: For Lucien
with audio commentary by Denise Markonish