Denise Marika - Video Work

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Arroyo 2012	Single Channel Video Installation with Sound Video by Denise Marika & Music by This is life.
"Arroyo" is an abstract concious space.

Effaced1 2010	Single Channel Video with Sound and Photo-Lightbox Installation
"Effaced" explores the metaphor of searching and drowning as it relates to body, voice and text. The fluid overlay of audio, visuals, stills and text create a dreamscape of abstract narrative associations.

Conversations 2010

5.1 Surround Sound, Single Channel HD Video Projection

Denise Marika, video & John Holland, music

"Conversations" a video shot in Cambodia reflects upon the labor, fragility, humor and pain of the human condition and it's history (music composition by John Holland).

Tracking 2010

VIDEO SCULPTURE EXHIBITED AT THE POZEN CENTER, MULTIMEDIA EVENT "MODULATIONS"

Three Channel Video Installation/ Three Stereo Channel audio Interactions

Single wall projection, two side projections on floating acrylic screens.

Two aluminum 20ft sound pipes

"Tracking" is a collaborative video installation by DM, Denise Marika and Dana Moser and was largely influenced by the city of Berlin. "Tracking" reflects on the international condition at the borders separating people from places and events, the threshold where layers of impediments and barriers multiply.

The projection in "Tracking" is constructed through the algorithmic interactions of a dynamic system. Sound and HD video are programmed to mix (edit) together in realtime according to software-defined interactions.

Tracking 2009

SITE SPECIFIC DEBUT- AXIOM GALLERY

Three Channel Video Installation [play simultaneously]
10' rearwall projection w/ dual flatscreen side panels

Product of Expurgation 2008

Four Channel Video Installation
20'' projections

Expurgate: To cleanse of something morally harmfull, offensive or erroneous; especially: to expunge objectionable parts from before publication or presentation. (Miriam Webster Dictionary)

I am interested in how we experience loss in the erasure of information and dissolution of identity. My task was to shred newspapers, images and sound; stories that were once whole are now emptied of content. I want to make tangible the voided material and the discomforting sound of its removal.

Downrush 2007	Video and braille Installation
Downrush relies on the viewer’s complicity and passivity as witness to current events, conflicts, war, genocide and the associated loss of lives. In Downrush, a body wrapped in burial cloth rolls down the full length of a wooden stairway, the dead weight of the body hits hard as it cascades downward shaking the supporting framework.

The Puzzle Master 2007	Video Projections and set design
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 and set design by Denise Marika.

Orpheus X 2006 - 2009

Video Installation for theatre performance

Robert Woodruff joins composer/performer Rinde Eckert to create this music-theatre piece inspired by the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. Video projections serve as an integral component of the play's environment: Eurydice in the underworld, her pacing figure and gestures caught in the web of massive i-beams and the steel surfaces of the floor and a suspended box. The set was co-designed by Denise Marika and David Zinn.

Theatre for a New Audience, NYC, December 2-20, 2009

Hong Kong International Festival, China, February 16, 2007

Edinburgh Festival, Scotland, Royal Lyceum Theatre, August 25–29, 2007

Premiered at Zero Arrow Theatre, Boston, MA, March 25 - April 23, 2006

Leg 2005	Single Channel Video Size Variable
Silent Version Sonic Version Music Compostion by John Mallia A leg is stretched along the length of exposed tree root. The downed tree trunk and leg are both coated in grey clay, matched in shape, color and form. Slowly the leg moves along the trunk caressing its length.

Gnaw 2005	Single Channel Video Size Variable
A face buried in dry dirt eats its way to the surface as a gritty crunching sound draws you in .

Detritus 2005	Video Installation,Aluminum frame floor mirror and video 72" x 92" x 12"
A projected nude figure crouches amidst the turbulence of demolition. U-shaped steel channels frame the deteriorating urban landscape. The jaws of a crane grab at the body stirring up clouds of dust and debris. Unaffected by the surrounding danger, the woman persists as rubble rains down upon her.

Ash 2004	Video Installation, Ash, steel beams and video 75" x 63 " x 4"
An ankle-deep landscape of ash is contained by massive steel beams laid in a rectangle on the floor. Projected on the undulating terrain, a woman anoints herself with ash. The sound of ash rubbing against her bare skin is abrasive. Over time her skin darkens, merging her body with the ashen-grey landscape.

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