“Stark’s methods and visual tricks — the prismatic glass, the reverse-projection of footage, the blending of images from past and present, the multiple overlays of one image over another — all effectively achieve her desire to blur time, conjuring a new memory space where past and present come together, bringing with them all their loss and melancholy.”
“Beginning in my imagination I feel the presence of the river, each event of the performance like an ice floe bobbing past, a constant yet uncertain stage upon which a dancer’s feet yet rise and fall.”
“it offers to discern similarities and differences between their work and speculate on how one artist inspires the other and vice versa. This pursuit can have a heyday here. It’s easy to see, for instance, that though two of these pairings – Chelsea Ellis and Sam Giberson, Johnston and Bogdonoff – work in completely different media, there are affinities that nevertheless thread through their work.”
