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Cameron Keith Gainer

Through 31 March 2013

Mint Museum Uptown

at the Levine Center for the Arts

 

Minneapolis-based artist Cameron Keith Gainer explores the impact of natural phenomenon on human perception and its relevance to our understanding of the world around us.  In 2011, he traveled with a film crew to a bay off the shore of Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, which is home to a type of marine plankton that emits a faint, blue light when agitated. Using highly specialized equipment designed to observe the dim recesses of outer space, Gainer gathered his crew on a moonless night to document a performance by Olympic synchronized swimmer Luna del Mar Aguilu and millions of bioluminescent microbes.  In this video installation, The Mint Museum presents the resulting film, Luna del Mar (2012), in slow motion.  Luna del Mar is a poetic expression of the interdependent and essential relationship between human and microscopic forces.

 

The accompanying soundtrack, composed and performed by New York-based musician Alex Waterman, provides the auditory undercurrent for the film. Waterman collected ambient sounds from around Vieques Island and then mixed them with a solo cello to reinforce the subjects' symbiosis as transmitted through their pulsating choreography.  - Brad Thomas, Curator of Contemporary Art

 

Online Resources on Gainer   

 

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Created by Nicole Jacobson, volunteer for The Mint Museum Library