Elizabeth Hoak-Doering
“Any surface can be unmarked, marked, or layered with markings”: This is an archaeologist and an artist’s thinking, but with a difference. The artist could add markings. The archaeologist shouldn’t. Elizabeth Hoak-Doering (CY / US) is an artist with a new PhD in Classical archaeology – about nonsymbolic graffiti (scratches, swoops, dots). She came to Cyprus on a US Fulbright scholarship to study ancient sculptural practices, and stayed on, writing and making artwork about political identity, stone re-use and more. She became a professor of fine art.
Artistic Method
Elizabeth Hoak-Doering
Things, WitnessesKinetic installation at the Maison de l’Architecture, Amiens FR 2010
Borrowed furniture, graphite, Mylar, motion detectors and motors. Photo: Pravdoliub Ivanov
Her recent works explore and document mark making in ancient and modern graffiti, transforming archaeological field work (contact tracing, documentation, digital illustration, data analysis) into research based visual art (frottage, photography, various printmaking, drawing, book arts, projected animation). These, and other works of kinetic installation and experimental drawing have been presented in venues such as Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE); Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (DE); The Manege, Moscow (RU); The Drawing Center, NY (US), Lisson Gallery London (UK) Nicosia Municipal Art Centre (CY); Espaces Commines, Paris (FR); MAC, Rio de Janeiro (BR) and The 54th Venice Biennale of Art, Cyprus national pavilion (IT). Her works are in public collections including The European Central Bank, Frankfurt (DE); Cypriot State Gallery of Contemporary Art (CY), the Mead Art Museum, Amherst (US).
Project during Borderland Residence
Some surfaces, like borders, are invisible. People and languages crossing borderlands left traces that can be evoked: but in alternative, non-scientific ways. The BR residency at Atelierhaus Eupen will be for tracing the past and translating it into the present – developing nonverbal (video and graphite on basic material) choreography, talks, performances. It is a chance to explore vanishing surfaces, to see what traces are left on (or as) borders and to reanimate the markings left through time.
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