About the Exhibition

MotorPark is the first collaboration between Kimberly Kay and Lisi Raskin. The object itself will take the form of an eccentrically modified school bus replete with a wood burning stove and other flourishes that draw a connection to the home, the exhibition space, and the mobile, communal activity center. The initial design and build out phase of the object is set to take place during the summer at the ICA at MECA&D. Throughout this initial process of construction, MotorPark will be the backdrop for film screenings, lectures, and other community-based arts initiatives. Once road ready, MotorPark will be a mobile hub around which Lisi and Kim will stage art shows, lectures, film screenings, studio based classes, and other programming that they will initiate through an open-call proposal system.

About the Work

Laleh Khorramian’s Water Panics in the Sea is the fourth in a series of films by the artist that is based on the five elements: earth, air, fire, water, and ether. The film follows a sea vessel as it traverses the ocean waters through an accelerated and indistinct chronology. The hallucinatory and oneiric voyage of bizarre landscapes and occurrences explores the dichotomies of the artificial as real and the real vs. the imagined. Khorramian combines stop-motion animation, magnification of her monotypes, along with collages and live-action film. The soundtrack, created through a similar process of layering, sampling and selecting, creates a theatrical framework that underscores the epic, the absurd and the seemingly invisible.

This work has previously been shown at: SITE Santa Fe’s Eighth International Biennial Exhibition and in solo exhibitions at both the Saint Louis Art Museum and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY.