2008 - Continuous Incident II - installation, June Kelly Gallery, New York, video - text read by Lisa Mackie, music. Johann Sebastian Bach, Violin Cantata

 

“A woman in a billowing dress. Growing things seen from an ant's-eye view. Boulders. Wings. Glitter. Light. Iridescence. Transparency. Translucency. Instability. A story read aloud and the inexorably logical, completely unpredictable music of Johann Sebastian Bach. These are all components of Lisa Mackie's alluring, perplexing multivalent installation, Continuous Incident. A first impression is of a series of fragments, united by seductive color, tender surfaces, and that much maligned notion, beauty. The initial associations Mackie provokes with her combination of free-standing, wall-mounted, projected, and aural elements - Continuous Incident comprises three-dimensional "sculpture-lights," two-dimensional collages, and a video projection with sound are with fairy tales or, at least, with the way we remember our childhood experience of fairy tales. It may be that big skirt, with its immediate connections with storybook princesses." Wilkin