http://www.katiemurken.com Katie Murken Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:00:17 +0000 http://www.katiemurken.com en http://www.katiemurken.com/Westward-Wild-and-Woeful http://www.katiemurken.com/following/katiemurken.com/Westward-Wild-and-Woeful Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:00:17 +0000 Katie Murken 2409504 On the night of the full moon, midway through the residency, I am kept awake thinking about the materials I have collected and their relationship to the village. I envision an ensemble of objects in one of the abandoned arch rooms—the one with the niches decorated with yellow-painted carvings. A man’s suit jacket hangs on a hook in the wall, the left arm embroidered with the lyrics to Hiawatha’s Vision by Johnny Cash. The niches are filled with the cleaned bones, they have been tied with pink plastic ribbons, pulled from the woven plastic bag. The skeletons of dead plants from the valley are painted “mecca blue” and placed in such a way that they appear to grow from cracks in the floor. A quiet dialogue ensues between the objects and the space, myself and the villagers, art and tradition. 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The residency consists of a multi-roomed cave-house located in the small farming village of Ibrahimpasha. Each year artists are invited to explore the village and its surrounding valleys, to intermingle and interact with the residents and to develop a visual or artistic response. Ibrahimpasha and its people have arrived at a crossroads where an ancient way of life is giving way to westernized modern existence. I was fortunate to be in residence at a moment when it was possible to observe traces of the past, present and future realities of the village. For this reason, I felt that any work I made while in residence should acknowledge my dual perspective as insider and outsider; temporary village resident and western observer/cultural tourist. My process became a rhythm of observing and gathering traces of village life, transforming them through a series of simple manipulations and placing them back in the environment as a means of creating a dialogue between myself and the villagers. The installation I created has been left intact and will remain for future visitors to discover. http://www.katiemurken.com/Continua http://www.katiemurken.com/following/katiemurken.com/Continua Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:08:59 +0000 Katie Murken 2030536 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0006.jpg" width="670" height="415" width_o="2048" height_o="1269" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0006_o.jpg" data-mid="10098124" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0017.jpg" width="670" height="414" width_o="2048" height_o="1268" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0017_o.jpg" data-mid="10098139" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0019.jpg" width="670" height="411" width_o="2048" height_o="1258" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0019_o.jpg" data-mid="10098145" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/detail1.jpg" width="670" height="415" width_o="2048" height_o="1269" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/detail1_o.jpg" data-mid="10099489" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/detail2.jpg" width="670" height="415" width_o="2048" height_o="1269" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/detail2_o.jpg" data-mid="10100125" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/detail3.jpg" width="670" height="415" width_o="2048" height_o="1269" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/detail3_o.jpg" data-mid="10100142" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/detail4.jpg" width="670" height="415" width_o="2048" height_o="1269" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/detail4_o.jpg" data-mid="10100150" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0057.jpg" width="670" height="388" width_o="2048" height_o="1186" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0057_o.jpg" data-mid="10098152" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/mechanics.jpg" width="670" height="415" width_o="2048" height_o="1269" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/mechanics_o.jpg" data-mid="10099998" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/wheel.jpg" width="670" height="415" width_o="2048" height_o="1269" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/wheel_o.jpg" data-mid="10100006" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0042.jpg" width="670" height="515" width_o="2048" height_o="1577" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0042_o.jpg" data-mid="10100018" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0043.jpg" width="670" height="517" width_o="2048" height_o="1581" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0043_o.jpg" data-mid="10100020" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0047.jpg" width="670" height="520" width_o="2048" height_o="1589" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0047_o.jpg" data-mid="10100030" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0048.jpg" width="670" height="522" width_o="2048" height_o="1598" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0048_o.jpg" data-mid="10100044" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0050.jpg" width="670" height="515" width_o="2048" height_o="1574" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0050_o.jpg" data-mid="10100076" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0051.jpg" width="670" height="521" width_o="2048" height_o="1593" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/2030536/_MUR0051_o.jpg" data-mid="10100086" border="0" align="left"/>Continua. 2011. Site-specific installation with 24 columns and a series of 14 broadsides. Columns are created from phone books and pigment dye. Broadsides are screenprinting and collaged phone book swatches on Somerset Satin. 22" x 30". Edition of 6. http://www.katiemurken.com/Correspondences http://www.katiemurken.com/following/katiemurken.com/Correspondences Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:33:26 +0000 Katie Murken 574177 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud2web.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud2web_o.jpg" data-mid="2640867" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud3.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud3_o.jpg" data-mid="2640874" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud4.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud4_o.jpg" data-mid="2640878" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud7.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud7_o.jpg" data-mid="2640883" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud8.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud8_o.jpg" data-mid="2640889" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud11.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574177/outloud11_o.jpg" data-mid="2640905" border="0" align="left"/>Correspondences: a 10-minute performance based on the artist book Half-listening. The Print Center, Philadelphia. April 3, 2010. http://www.katiemurken.com/Half-listening http://www.katiemurken.com/following/katiemurken.com/Half-listening Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:33:23 +0000 Katie Murken 574212 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening1.jpg" width="670" height="379" width_o="1000" height_o="566" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening1_o.jpg" data-mid="2640946" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening4.jpg" width="670" height="278" width_o="1000" height_o="416" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening4_o.jpg" data-mid="2640947" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening5.jpg" width="670" height="278" width_o="1000" height_o="416" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening5_o.jpg" data-mid="2640949" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening6.jpg" width="670" height="278" width_o="1000" height_o="416" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening6_o.jpg" data-mid="2640952" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening7.jpg" width="670" height="278" width_o="1000" height_o="416" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening7_o.jpg" data-mid="2640956" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening8.jpg" width="670" height="278" width_o="1000" height_o="416" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/574212/half_listening8_o.jpg" data-mid="2640960" border="0" align="left"/>Half-listening. 2010. Artist book with inkjet, woodcut and screenprinting. Each spread 6" x 15.5". http://www.katiemurken.com/Dots-and-Dashes http://www.katiemurken.com/following/katiemurken.com/Dots-and-Dashes Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:18:33 +0000 Katie Murken 176175 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/176175/6_dotsdashes_1.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/176175/6_dotsdashes_1_o.jpg" data-mid="758542" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/176175/7_dotsdashes.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/176175/7_dotsdashes_o.jpg" data-mid="758532" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/176175/8_dotsdashes.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/176175/8_dotsdashes_o.jpg" data-mid="758534" border="0" align="left"/>Dots and Dashes. 2009. hydrocal plaster and logs. 1’ x 12’. http://www.katiemurken.com/For-She-is-Time http://www.katiemurken.com/following/katiemurken.com/For-She-is-Time Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:44:34 +0000 Katie Murken 120394 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120394/For_She1.jpg" width="670" height="372" width_o="1800" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120394/For_She1_o.jpg" data-mid="684447" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120394/For_She2.jpg" width="670" height="346" width_o="2048" height_o="1060" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120394/For_She2_o.jpg" data-mid="684450" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120394/For_She3.jpg" width="670" height="372" width_o="1800" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120394/For_She3_o.jpg" data-mid="684454" border="0" align="left"/>For She is Time. 2006. Woodcut, screenprinting and letterpress. 11” x 10.5” x .5”. http://www.katiemurken.com/Sunup-Sundown http://www.katiemurken.com/following/katiemurken.com/Sunup-Sundown Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:34:20 +0000 Katie Murken 120386 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120386/diamante1_1.jpg" width="670" height="299" width_o="2048" height_o="915" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120386/diamante1_1_o.jpg" data-mid="770191" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120386/light_leaning2_1.jpg" width="670" height="261" width_o="2048" height_o="798" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120386/light_leaning2_1_o.jpg" data-mid="770196" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120386/snowcandy3_1.jpg" width="670" height="260" width_o="2048" height_o="796" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120386/snowcandy3_1_o.jpg" data-mid="770199" border="0" align="left"/>Sunup Sundown Series. 2009. Inkjet prints, chalk pastel, spray paint. 42” x 15” http://www.katiemurken.com/There-is-a-Building http://www.katiemurken.com/following/katiemurken.com/There-is-a-Building Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:28:47 +0000 Katie Murken 120379 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building1_3.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building1_3_o.JPG" data-mid="875482" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building2_4.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building2_4_o.jpg" data-mid="875483" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building3_3.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building3_3_o.jpg" data-mid="875484" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building4_3.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building4_3_o.jpg" data-mid="875485" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building5_4.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building5_4_o.jpg" data-mid="875486" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building6_3.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building6_3_o.jpg" data-mid="875487" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building7_1.jpg" width="670" height="505" width_o="954" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building7_1_o.jpg" data-mid="875506" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building8_1.jpg" width="670" height="458" width_o="1051" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building8_1_o.jpg" data-mid="875509" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building9_1.jpg" width="670" height="505" width_o="954" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120379/building9_1_o.jpg" data-mid="875510" border="0" align="left"/>There is a Building. 2008. plaster, twigs, nylon thread and nine artist's books. 18’ x 15’ x 12’ http://www.katiemurken.com/WOW http://www.katiemurken.com/following/katiemurken.com/WOW Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:26:34 +0000 Katie Murken 120370 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120370/wow3.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120370/wow3_o.jpg" data-mid="683979" border="0" align="left"/><img 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http://www.katiemurken.com/Debtor-s-Inheritance http://www.katiemurken.com/following/katiemurken.com/Debtor-s-Inheritance Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:25:26 +0000 Katie Murken 120366 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_beech_3.jpg" width="670" height="390" width_o="2048" height_o="1194" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_beech_3_o.jpg" data-mid="758383" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_beech2_2.jpg" width="670" height="390" width_o="1200" height_o="700" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_beech2_2_o.jpg" data-mid="758330" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_beechtext_2.jpg" width="670" height="390" width_o="2048" height_o="1194" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_beechtext_2_o.jpg" data-mid="758332" border="0" align="left"/><img 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src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_smiths_2_o.jpg" data-mid="758339" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_bog1_2.jpg" width="670" height="390" width_o="2048" height_o="1194" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_bog1_2_o.jpg" data-mid="758384" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_smithstext_2.jpg" width="670" height="390" width_o="2048" height_o="1194" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_smithstext_2_o.jpg" data-mid="758341" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_winddance_1.jpg" width="670" height="390" width_o="2048" height_o="1194" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/8495/120366/debtors_winddance_1_o.jpg" data-mid="758342" border="0" align="left"/>Debtor’s Inheritance is a site-specific and interactive installation that was created as part of Greenmachine, a multi-media based exhibition on the grounds of the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia in 2007. The project was created in collaboration with P'unk Ave. During the exhibition, visitors exploring the grounds of the Center encountered a series of stations demarcated by site-specific arrangements of painted gourds. At each station the gourds prompted participants to use their cellphones to initiate a series of narrative text-messages. The messages layered local history and ecology with residual dialogue from project collaborators. This non-linear narrative could be pieced together to create a portrait of the Center as a living site that embodies the struggle between progress and preservation.