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This video clip features the performance of Kara Walker as part of The
Fabric Workshop and Museum's exhibition Fibbergibbet and Mumbo Jumbo:
Kara E. Walker in Two Acts.
The exhibition was the culmination of Kara Walker's collaboration with
the FWM. Her residency project, begun in 2001, continued Walker's use of
wall drawing and decorative craft traditions, particularly Victorian
silhouette portraiture, as the basis of her practice. However
Fibbergibbet and Mumbo Jumbo, with its incorporation of video and
performance, marked a pivotal point in Walker's work.
Throughout the installation, light, cast by miniature cycloramas or
"magic lanterns" and projected video danced across the landscape. This
use of projected light forced "something two dimensional into three
dimensional spaces." Derived from the artist's use of overhead
projectors to cast her silhouette images, the video projections and
magic lanterns, coupled with the painted backdrop, created a deliberate
theatricality that only further reinforced the play between "fact and
fiction, real and fictitious."
Above left: Kara Walker performing in her exhibition Fibbergibbet and Mumbo Jumbo: Kara E. Walker in Two Acts at The Fabric Workshop and Museum on 26 March–14 August 2004. Video still: Matthew Suib.
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