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Canadian installation artist Geoffrey Farmer has long admired the counterculture and music of the ’60s, a longing of someone who has realized he’s missed out on something. Growing up in the MTV and Atari generation has shaped his artistic outlook with an ADHD exuberance toward multimedia. As a result, his installations have become amalgams of video, photography, sound, sculpture, drawings, and performance that jump genres into the world of theatricality.
For his latest site-specific, installation-based artwork, Farmer’s Let’s Make the Water Turn Black takes its inspirational cues from the music of Frank Zappa. But it becomes a monster all its own, informed by the major artistic movements, beginning with surrealism and culminating with Vietnam War-era work.
Farmer will lend context to his installation by using even more mixed-media applications — sound clips, video footage, and even puppets. Made with found objects and choreographed to music, the puppets will act out a play.
The installation debuted October 9 and will be on view through March 1, 2015, at Pérez Art Museum Miami (1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami). Seating is limited and is first come, first served. Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is $16 for adults, $12 for seniors and students with ID, $12 for kids aged 7 to 18, and free for museum members. Call 305-375-3000 or visit pamm.org.
Tuesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m. Starts: Oct. 9. Continues through March 1, 2014
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