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Diana Thater
Knots + Surfaces (Version #1), 2001

Installation view: Knots + Surfaces, DIA Center for the Art, New York, United States of America, 2001
Photo: Frederik Nilsen | 1301 PE, Los Angeles
Installation view: Knots + Surfaces, DIA Center for the Art, New York, 2001 © Frederik Nilsen / 1301 PE, Los Angeles, 2001
Installation view: Knots + Surfaces, DIA Center for the Art, New York, 2001 © Frederik Nilsen / 1301 PE, Los Angeles, 2001
Installation view: Knots + Surfaces, DIA Center for the Art, New York, 2001 © Frederik Nilsen / 1301 PE, Los Angeles, 2001
Installation view: Knots + Surfaces, DIA Center for the Art, New York, 2001 © Frederik Nilsen / 1301 PE, Los Angeles, 2001
Diana Thater
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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


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.


*1962 in San Francisco, USA | Living and working in Los Angeles, USA
Artist's website
http://www.thaterstudio.com/
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