ACTION, RECALIBRATION: no. 4 | Heidi Wiren Bartlett

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Inspired by decay and preservation of environments, Bartlett bathed the Ghost Room in light for the first time in forty years by replacing the boarded-up frames with four 90 year-old windows recovered from the building. In a performance on the facade, she harnessed herself to the rafters and removed the layers of plywood window by window, allowing light into the room. Her project displays the room as a historical artifact, the original wallpaper protected by blackout curtains and the linseed oil linoleum floor marked off with velvet ropes.

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Heidi Wiren Bartlett
Heidi Wiren Bartlett

Heidi Wiren Bartlett is an Interdisciplinary artist, teacher, amateur entomologist and taxidermist living and working in Nebraska. Bartlett investigates the potential of environments as conduits for performance and drawing. Paper, wood, animal artifacts, and architecture create the framework for her performances. She explores the line that runs through all things; revealing relationships between our body and its surroundings. Within this landscape she is interested in marks, light, movement, ritual and the dialog between our symbolic and animal selves.

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