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Artist:  Jennifer Steinkamp
Title: Dervish
Date:  2004, 05
Dimensions: size variable, horizontal: 8 - 12 feet high x 10.6 - 16 feet wide
Equipment: 2 Sharp XGC50 3000 lumen projectors, 2 Epson 7800, 3500 lumen projectors, 4 PC computers.
Photo credit:  Robert Wedemeyer, courtesy Lehmann Maupin.
Exhibition History:

  1. Lehmann Maupin, New York, New York, January 10 - February 14, 2004. Exhibited: 1,5,6,7
  2. In Focus: Themes in Photography, Albright-Knox, Buffalo, New York, September, 25 - January 9, 2004. Exhibited: 1
  3. Out There: landscape in the New Millennium, MoCA Cleveland, Ohio, curated by Margo A. Crutchfield, May 20 - August 29, 2005. Exhibited: 14
  4. Decelerate, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, curated by Elizabeth Dunbar, December 16, 2005 - February 19, 2006. Exhibited: 12
  5. Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid Spain, March 23 - May 4, 2006. Exhibited: 10 and 12
  6. Looking Now, 21C Museum Hotel, Louisville, kentucky, April 1 - September, 2006. Exhibited: 3
  7. Second Natures, Edythe L. and Eli Broad Art Center, UCLA, curated by Christiane Paul, 2006.
  8. Jennifer Steinkamp: Dervish, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming, September 16 - December 22, 2006. Exhibited: 4
    2008-2009 Exhibition, The Martin Margulies Collection at the WAREhouse, Miami, Florida, curated by Katherine Hinds, November 15, 2008 - April 25, 2009, exhibited 2.
  9. All of This is Melting Away, Royal/T, Culver City, California, curated by Jay Sanders, August 14 - December 31, 2008, exhibited 0.
  10. The 11th Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, Egypt, curated by Kimberli Meyer, MAK Center, December 20, 2008 - February 20, 2009. Exhibited 8, 9, 14.

Description: Dervish consisted of four high definition projections of individual trees with twirling branches. This was inspired by a ritual practiced by the priests, or dervishes, of the Mevlavi sect of Islam. In the midst of a trance, the dervishes whirl in a motion symbolizing the soul's release from earthly ties and communication with the divine. The movement of the branches contains elements of both control and lawlessness -- while the whirling motion of the trees is fanciful and seemingly enchanted, the movement is limited by the roots of the trees.

Part of the Collections:
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Dervish 1
Martin Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida. Dervish 2
21 C Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, Dervish 3
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio. Dervish 9
Autostadt, Wolfsburg, Germany. Dervish 14

Quicktime Movie and Individual trees

Projection:
Epson 3500/16.35=214
 
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