dimensions variable; vintage and contemporary National Geographic and contemporary fashion magazines, plaster, tissue paper, coffee filters, plants, dye and pigment ink, double sided tape; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Emily Denlinger: Gain of Function: New Mutation
at the Crisp Museum at the Southeast Missouri State University River Campus in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
4 October-16 December 2024
Emily Denlinger’s collage artwork explores the human condition: issues of identity, survival, truth, and power. In this installation, Denlinger shares her work New Mutations/Old Traditions, part of her “Gain of Function: New Mutation” series. The expansive collage is an exploration of masked traditions that take place around the world, as simultaneous inventions, to invite positivity into a community and expel negative forces. “Gain of Function: New Mutation” is an ongoing series created in response to research surrounding the intersections of ecology, simulations, mutations, and futurology.
108″x330″; vintage and contemporary National Geographic and contemporary fashion magazines, plaster, tissue paper, coffee filters, plants, dye and pigment ink, double sided tape, vintage and antique atlas, petri dishes; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
As part of the exhibition, on 21 November 2024, the public was invited to guide composer Frank Nawrot as he created a live soundtrack to go with New Mutations/Old Traditions. Audience members manipulated elements of the score: images and musical notation.
(text adapted from material provided by the artist)
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175 Cultural Arts Center
Southeast Missouri State University, River Campus
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