LARA KOHL WORK SAMPLES


 
 


 


 

 


 
   
 

APPARENT HORIZON, 2008
Cardboard, wood, vinyl, video projection, audio

An installation that address the idealism of ‘The American Dream’, both in its potential and in its shortcomings. A pier that morphs into a loading dock acts as two kinds of docks at once, while a transluscent plastic-stip door doubles as a scrim for a video projection. Video footage captured by a video camera pointed out to sea at the horizon line is accompanied by the sound of the hiss of a needle on a record before the music begins to play.

 

  

YOUR WINDLESS ARRANGEMENT REMIXED, 2008
13 used household fans bought on Craig's list

An installation created for the Repetti Gallery exhibition 'Take Your Time, Man' , which invited a group of artists to re-imagine an Olafur Eliasson piece in a reclaimed three-story building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

  STAGE, 2007
Wood, metal, rubber. 7’ x 11’

A retractable stage built in three sections. During the Frequencies exhibition the stage was put down in the evenings to be utilized for evening concerts leaving traces of these performances on the surface of the piece. 		 

SHOOTING STARS, 2006
Found wood, Coke crates, cinder blocks, metal, door, bricks, bucket, file drawer. 15’ x 3’ x 6.5’

Created for Artist’s Space exhibition ‘Salad Days’ a homemade bike ramp plays on two opposing definitions of the show’s title – as a time of youthful indiscretion and as a period in the past when one was at the peak of their abilities.

   ONCE UPON A TIME YESTERDAY, 2005
A chest freezer, an ice sculpture of Sleeping Beauty’s castle, and songs I wrote based on my teenage diaries and letters recorded by the Brooklyn band Hide the Knives. 35” x 33” x 22”

The piece evokes romantic notions of love and relationships giving way (melting into) the more angst- ridden voice of young garage bands in the midst of discovering that “real life” does not always look or feel like they said it would in fairy tales (but maybe that’s OK).

  

BRINGING YOU THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE, 2005
Installation including: overhead projector, transparencies and paper. Dimensions variable.

Two world maps – Hyatt Empire and McDonald’s Land- depicting respectively, the locations of Hyatt hotels and McDonalds’ restaurants worldwide overlaid with the silhouette of a bald eagle on the hunt.		   FEAR ITSELF, 2005
Installation, dimensions variable and 1 min. 3 sec. of audio
One of two site-specific pieces created for the exhibition “No Apology for Breathing” which sought to draw parallels between the architecture and politics of the 1930s and today.It includes a 2.5 ft. cardboard cut-out of King Kong, a film spot light, and a security motion sensor light which triggers a CD player; the audio is Marian Anderson singing “My Country Tis of Thee” during a 1939 concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial (on that date she was banned by the DAR from performing at Constitution Hall because she was black); electrical wire, and used desert combat boots.		   ROCK MAP, vs.2005
1min. 54 sec. audio excerpt.
A brief excerpt from a 22-minute audio map of the Rock‘n’Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, OR.		   LETTER FROM HOME, 2004
Single-channel video. 3 min., 45 sec.
Negotiating a long-distance relationship at age five.		   STUDIO VISIT (with Matthew Lusk) 2005
Single-channel video. 7 min. 57 sec.
Created for the Exit Art Exhibition “Studio Visit”, framed as providing privileged entry into the artist’s workspace.