Morgen Christie

 

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Inheritance, is a community garden pictured as a burial ground. hair was used to humanize the structure but also to act as a type of fertilizer. the Hair was braided with LEDs and enclosed in hairnets. The video work took specific examples from the neighboring streets. The projections were reflecting back onto the structures what the soil had witnessed over the decades.

 

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Blue, is a temporary site of color coded stonework. rocks were layered in black light paint, and exposed under a bug deflecting spot light. projections fill each corner. these ruins have been so neglected their original use is unknown. the stone’s life is in decay.

 

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Fumes, The assembly line of heating and cooling is replicated on the dowlin forge. Small clay vessels painted with cyanotype chemicals expose a blue color that represents cooling and warming. Chicken wire wrapped in strips of masking tape act as the worker, in skeletal form. The video is an exaggeration of fire, projected onto the largest portion of the forge.

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Morgen Christie, creates public video art screenings that focus on the history of aging and life span. Not only in a century change duration, but also a 15-minute light change duration. The relationship of time to memory is incredibly important to her. She hopes to cement the neighborhood to its subconscious through the mythology of time.

The structures she projects upon have been here for centuries. Morgen reinstates their history with those of the present by cleansing them with liquid light. She is immortalizing a moment in a few hours at most, depending on the battery of her power bank. Since the projections are so temporary the memory will only be reconciled in the documentation.

Morgen studied Video & Film Arts at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. Recently, she was a resident artist with the School of Visual Arts in New York City, NY. Her videos have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art's, Pop Rally in New York City, NY, Punto y Raya Television in Barcelona, Spain, Mad Lab Theater in Albuquerque, NM, and The Plastic Club in Philadelphia, PA.

Her video FLOW won 2nd place prize at The Exchange Gallery in Bloomsburg, PA. FLOW was also screened at the Unseen Festival in Denver, CO. Morgen’s work has been shown in Hungary, The Netherlands, Romania, Vietnam, and The United Kingdom.