MANITOGA 2020 Artist Residency Program
Anne Lindberg: cycles of seeing
June 5 - November 9
Pete M. Wyer: iForest
June 27 - September 26
Manitoga / The Russel Wright Design Center is pleased to announce this year's Artist Residency Program with presentations of work by New York based artist Anne Lindberg and British composer Pete M. Wyer.
Anne Lindberg's luminous large-scale drawings cycles of seeing will be installed in the main House beginning June 5 while Wyer will create an immersive sound installation in the landscape this summer as part of his evocative iForest series. Both works find inspiration in and celebrate Nature at Manitoga.
In her two-part drawing series cycles of seeing, Lindberg's palette of thousands of colored parallel lines will transition from cool to warm as summer becomes fall at Manitoga, reflecting concerns of time, sequence and causality. Lindberg's works unfold at the pace of her step as she pulls lines across a pliant mat board, and she finds context for her work within a long tradition of other "walking artists" including William Wordsworth, Rebecca Solnit, and Virginia Woolf. "Like these artists, philosophers and writers, I use walking as time to encourage a fluid state of perceptions, to contemplate place, and to affect change and adaptation as it informs incremental, moment-to-moment decisions in the making of my work."
To Lindberg's list of walking artists, we might add Russel Wright who routinely walked his seventy-five acres of woodlands over many years, observing, mapping and refining Manitoga's footpaths and trails and placing his house and studio as part of a mindful and orchestrated movement through and dialogue with nature. Lindberg's deliberate and measured pace informs the scale of her work as Wright's was the measure of Manitoga.
Near the House and Studio, Wright designed the Winter Walk to lead east through a woodland bathed in morning light. An offshoot of the path brings us to Pete M. Wyer's iForest within Wright's theatrical setting of towering boulders and framed views of the Hudson River Valley. Over twenty-four audio speakers will feature a 72-voice choir singing primarily in the indigenous Mohawk language a western response to the Mohawk Thanksgiving Ceremony. Originally created for a forest in the Adirondacks, Wyer's composition I Walk Towards Myself tells a story though music, echoing voices from thousands of years past who thanked every part of Nature. "Each person will experience the work differently depending on where they are walking, the weather, and the time of day. My hope in creating this piece is that people will have a deeper sense of connection to nature, to themselves, and to others because we are all part of nature. When we have that empathy, there is no longer us and them because they are us. This matters greatly because it affects the way we make decisions and how we view the world."
https://www.visitmanitoga.org/artist-residency-installation
https://www.visitmanitoga.org/2020-artist-residency-anne-lindberg
https://www.visitmanitoga.org/x5cjjhph6yug4bbijy92brb74t6pmc