Song of Sky and Sea: A Song of Realization, (2016) is a collaborative multi-media performance work for film and a cappella male chamber choir and based on the writings of ancient mystics across religious traditions. Music composed by Paul John Rudoi from poetry by Hafiz, Kabir and Rumi. Images and video are by Lynn Lukkas and the Univerity of Washington Chamber Singers were conducted by Geoffrey Boers and performed at Meany Hall, University of Washington on Friday, May 27, 2016.

Temporal Properties of the World: Passage, (2013) is a 20-minute looping media installation using the properties of filmmaking to explore human perceptions of time. Excerpted from the film, Temporal Properties of the World - Passage. Barbara Berlovitz, actor.

Telling Time: Tianjin, (2013) is a five-channel video and sound installation work exploring human experiences of time. The work consists of five thirteen-minute film loops of images culled from anonymous and personal archives shot in the past and projected in the present time into the installation. The work includes interviews with physicist, Andre Balashov, and philosopher, Robin LePoidvin and was presented at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Art Museum, Tianjin, China, March 25-April 25, 2013.

Parables: An Interfaith Oratorio (2012), is a 7- movement oratorio by composer Robert Aldrich and librettist Hershel Garfein. Parables explores religious and cultural intolerance across the three main western religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The documentation here is from a 2012 performance at the Ted Mann Hall and was also telecast on Public Television in October 2012. The performance featured Adriana Zabala, Soprano, Phillip Zwisza, Baritone, Monica Yanus, Soprano, Joseph Okell, Tenor, with Kathy Salzman-Romey, Conducting the University of Minnesota Orchestra and Chorus. The project was directed by David Walsh, with media design and production by Lynn Lukkas.

I selected some of the images in this work from popular culture media outlets that show to actual events and reflect the state of religious intolerance across the world today.

Through the Night (2012),

is a 16-minute video installation, the footage was shot on an over night train from Bodo to Trondheim Norway and exploring senses of time. Through the Night, was exhibited in, Time Arts Continuum, at Walker’s Point Center for Art from May 26 – June 30, 2012, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta (2011-2019),

was a traveling exhibition of the experimental films of Ana Mendieta co-curated by Lynn Lukkas and Howard Oransky in cooperation with the estate of Ana Mendieta and Gallerie LeLong & Company. This exhibition was a project of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Department of Art, University of Minnesota. During her too- brief career, Ana Mendieta produced a distinctive body of work that includes drawings, installations, performances, photographs, and sculptures. Less well-known, were her remarkable and prolific production of more than 100 experimental films. The exhibition, 2015 - 2019, presented a series of twenty-one original Super 8 films that were newly preserved and digitized in high definition for the exhibition and combined with related photographs. This multi-year research and exhibition project culminated in the first major exhibition focusing on the films of Ana Mendieta and a full-color exhibition catalog with a first-ever comprehensive filmography of her work. In addition, the catalog provides reference still images from all of the artist’s 104 films, and together these illustrations represent the full range of the artist’s film practice from 1971 to 1981.

The international tour included: Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (October 16, 2018 – January 20, 2019); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (April 20 – July 22, 2018); Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (June 18 – October 22, 2017); University of California–Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, California. (October 22 – December 31, 2016); Nova Southeastern University Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL (February 20 – May 08, 2016); and Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota where it opened in September of 2015.

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The Audible Edge (2015),

was an exhibition curated by Howard Oransky, Director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery for the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Lynn Lukkas, Associate Professor of Experimental and Media Arts; David Little, Curator and Head, Department of Photography and New Media at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Jim Lutz, Lecturer in the School of Architecture; and University of Minnesota. The Audible Edge explores intersections of architecture and sound, inside and outside the gallery space and includes, With Hidden Noise, a traveling exhibition of sound art projects, including works by Taylor Deupree, Jennie C. Jones, Pauline Oliveros, Andrea Parkins, Steve Peters, Steve Roden, Michael J. Schumacher, and Stephen Vitiello. With Hidden Noise is part of ICI’s Exhibitions in a Box series. Produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, this exhibition is curated by Stephen Vitiello. The Audible Edge includes artists invited by the organizing team to participate in the exhibition, including J. Anthony Allen, Philip Blackburn, Mary Ellen Childs, Douglas Ewart, Douglas Geers, Beatrix*JAR, John Keston, Abinadi Meza, Ryan Wurst and Patrick Beseda. The Audible Edge includes artworks by Berenice Abbott, Harold E. Edgerton, and Isamu Noguchi loaned from the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and artworks by Joseph Beuys and Katarina Fritsch loaned from the permanent collection of Walker Art Center. On view at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, May 27 – July 26, 2014.

Landscape of the Mind, May 22 – June 30 (2012),

was co-curated by Howard Oransky and Lynn Lukkas, the exhibition explores the relationships of landscape, imagination, and experience in a variety of media. Each of us inhabits two separate but related landscapes: the physical landscape that surrounds us, and the mental landscape of our own interior environment. The body, memory, culture, and history moderate the intersection of these landscapes. The artworks in Landscape of the Mind, explore the shape, texture, and topography of these spaces and the relationships between them. Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Department of Art, University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, MN.

Artists included in the exhibition: Laura Aguilar (CA), Kate Casanova (MN), Jan Estep (MN), Jil Evans (MN), India Flint (South Australia), Allen Guilmette (CA), Mark Knierim (MN), Joyce Lyone (MN), Ulrike Mohr (Berlin, Germany), Pipo Nguyen-duy (OH), Jane Norling (CA), Rebecca Pavlenko (MN), Anette Rose (Berlin, Germany), Bernard Sallmann (Berlin, Germany), Petra Spielhagen (Berlin, Germany), Kenneth Steinbach (MN) and JoAnn Verburg (MN).

Investigations: Lynn Hershman Leeson (2011),

was co-curated by Howard Oransky and Lynn Lukkas Katherine E. Nash Gallery Over the last three decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in an era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds. Lynn Hershman Leeson: Investigations brings together three key projects spanning the trajectory of the artist’s career to date: Roberta Breitmore (1974-78) in which the artist created, lived and documented the life of a fictional persona; Lorna (1983-84) the first interactive art video in which the users make choices for an agoraphobic protagonist; and RAW/WAR (2011) a user-generated and constantly evolving interactive history of women artists and feminist art. On view at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota October 27 – December 05, 2011. Related Film Program at Walker Art Center: Walker Art Center will premier Lynn Hershman Leeson’s new film !Women Art Revolution on Friday, November 18.