Erin Espelie

Attempting to fix, replicate, reanimate, or gather data can estrange us further from what we seek to know.

18 de ago. de 2024

Using found sound from Disney's 1940-50s nature documentaries, this trilogy creates a mismatch between the digital image and historic/histrionic vo...

01 de out. de 2013

made for the Frontier Drive-In, Earth Day 2022

22 de abr. de 2022

(made for video exhibition loop, MediaMatic Gallery)

01 de abr. de 2017

10 quintillion insects live on the planet—that is, 300 pounds of insects for every pound of human flesh. They drive decomposition, dissolution, and...

12 de mar. de 2019

Radicals organize the chaotic swarm of characters into a logical system. Traditional Chinese groups all characters according to 214 radicals (simpl...

14 de dez. de 2020

what am I to do with my imagination—& the person in me trembles—& there is still innocence, it is starting up somewhere even now, and the stran...

01 de jan. de 2021

A film for A.R. Ammons, author of Garbage: A Poem (1993), and baculovirologist Lois Miller. 10 quintillion insects live on the planet—that is, 300 ...

15 de nov. de 2020

This installation, like so many others, is outdoors. It cannot really be seen, for its primary object, will, if looked at directly, burn, damage, e...

01 de jun. de 2018

Here, a group of women tell of how they came to arrive at an isolated ashram atop a mountain and what life there has been like both before and afte...

03 de nov. de 2019

Humans have used moss for at 1,000 years to help heal their injuries. --Smithsonian Magazine, 2017. Mosses and other small beings issue an invitati...

22 de nov. de 2018

Our imagination is equally confounded, said the 18th-century Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet, by the infinitely great and by the infinitely small. ...

01 de out. de 2012

In his introduction to the 1909 edition of The Golden Bowl, Henry James wrote, "My instinct appears repeatedly to have been that to arrive at the f...

01 de fev. de 2010

Try as we might, we cannot autopsy (from Greek, to see for oneself) the whole natural world. As diversity of life reduces, we further lose the abil...

01 de out. de 2011

Three years ago, honeybees started to disappear. Today there are at least 33% fewer bees in the U.S., and with bees helping to pollinate one in eve...

01 de jan. de 2008

Boletus, amaryllis, anolis, listeria, wisteria, nematoceara: nothing is linear in evolution, nor in life nor in light. We radiate out on waves, the...

17 de jun. de 2009