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{{Short description|American artist}}
'''Helen Mirra''' is an American [[conceptual art]]ist.
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| image = Mirra Kauzchensteig.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1970|12|31|}}
| birth_place = [[Rochester New York]]
| nationality =
| education = Bennington College, University of Illinois at Chicago
| style =
| name = Hendl Helen Mirra
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'''Hendl Helen Mirra'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hendl Helen Mirra |url=https://www.hmirra.net/biography/ |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=www.hmirra.net}}</ref> is an American [[conceptual art]]ist. "[Like Henry David Thoreau, she is a] maximalist in a minimalist robe", with an idiosyncratic practice.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://frieze.com/article/reference-material|title=''Reference Material''|last1=Eleey|first1=Peter|date=January 2006|work=Frieze Magazine}}</ref> She is engaged with ideas common to buddhist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehighline.org/activities/helen-mirra-half-smiler|title=HIGH LINE ART COMMISSION: Helen Mirra, Half-smiler {{!}} Friends of the High Line|access-date=2018-05-09|archive-date=2018-05-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510115304/http://www.thehighline.org/activities/helen-mirra-half-smiler|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.largeglass.co.uk/Stephen-Batchelor-Talk|title=Stephen Batchelor Talk|website=www.largeglass.co.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-09-13 |title="Not-knowing is most intimate": Helen Mirra in Conversation with Emmalea Russo |url=https://artcritical.com/2015/09/13/emmalea-russo-with-helen-mirra/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2015-09-25 |work=artcritical |language=en-US}}</ref> and [[Pragmatism|pragmatist]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=BAMPFA - Helen Mirra / MATRIX 209 - 65 Instants |url=https://bampfa.org/program/helen-mirra-matrix-209 |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2016-07-05 |website=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collection.fraclorraine.org/parcour/showtext/12?wid=694&lang=en|title=Collection FRAC Lorraine {{!}} Helen Mirra:Human Ken, 24|website=collection.fraclorraine.org}}</ref> philosophies, and since 2008 her art practice has been integrated with walking.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010 |title=Conscience de pierre press release |url=https://www.peterfreemaninc.com/exhibitions/helen-mirra/press-release |website=Galerie Nelson Freeman}}</ref> She has said of walking: "It is an unskilled activity, and a modest activity, and a free activity, and an always-available activity, and an equipment-free activity, and an active activity."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.metropolism.com/en/features/32730_helen_mirra|title="This is my interest anyway - to not-demand" - Interview with Helen Mirra - Features - Metropolis M|language=en}}</ref> In an essay on Mirra's work, Yukio Lippit described her engagement thus: "Mirra’s practice champions walking as a specific form of thinking that bypasses language. Indeed, one senses that she shares with Zen Buddhists in particular a deep skepticism towards language as an authentic mechanism of discovery."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Lippit_2011.pdf|title="Ambulations", gehend (Berlin: argobooks, 2013)|last=Lippit|first=Yukio}}</ref> At the same time, she has often worked with language as a primary material.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nordenhake.com/exhibitions/2018/helen-mirra|title=reference to book coinciding with exhibition: Nueve años caminando en las laderas|website=nordenhake.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mirra |first=Helen |date=2007 |title=Cloud, the, 3 |url=https://jrp-editions.com/art/books/monographs-artists-books/cloud-the-3/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |publisher=JRP Ringier}}</ref>
She was born in [[Rochester, New York]] in 1970, graduated from [[Bennington College]] in 1991, and received her MFA in studio art from the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] in 1996. Since 2007 her practice has been centered in walking.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.artcritical.com/2015/09/13/emmalea-russo-with-helen-mirra/ |title = Helen Mirra in conversation with Emmalea Russo, artcritical, September 13, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/helen-mirra/ |title = Hourly Directional}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.aspenartmuseum.org/artists/105-helen-mirra |title = Half-smiler}}</ref> Her first solo gallery exhibition was in Chicago in 1999 and included a 16mm silent film, textile works, and the vinyl record ''Along, Below'', all relating to geography, and her first one-person institutional exhibition was at the [[Renaissance Society]] at the [[University of Chicago]] in 2001. The open-ended and ecologically-minded brevity demonstrated then has since been a continuous aspect of her idiosyncratic practice.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://frieze.com/article/reference-material |title = Peter Eleey, ''Reference Material'', Frieze Magazine, January 2006:146-9}}</ref>


==Career==
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She has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, and Japan, as well as in broad international exhibitions such as the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th [[São Paulo Art Biennial]] and the 50th [[Venice Biennial]]. A fifteen-year (1995-2009) survey of her work, [http://www.culturgest.pt/arquivo/2014/expos/helenmirra.html ''Edge Habitat''], was presented in 2014 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, and the corresponding publication Edge Habitat Materials was published by WhiteWalls.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo20700535.html|title = Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = University of Chicago Press|last = |first = }}</ref>
Hendl Mirra has worked in diverse media including weaving,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/arts/design/what-to-see-in-new-york-art-galleries.html|title=Helen Mirra|last=Smith|first=Roberta|work=The New York Times|date=3 January 2019 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> writing - particularly indexes,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.renaissancesociety.org/events/750/helen-mirra-cloud-the-3/|title=Helen Mirra: Cloud, the, 3 {{!}} Events: Reading {{!}} The Renaissance Society}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/29/mirra.php|title=CABINET // Inventory / Index for Der Räuber|website=www.cabinetmagazine.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060424.mirra.shtml|title=Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus|date=March 31, 2006}}</ref> experimental music,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2003/10oct_text.html|title=Paris Transatlantic recommendations}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sonambiente.com/en/04_artists/4M2mirr_werk.html|title=sonambiente berlin 2006 {{!}} festival für hören und sehen {{!}} klang kunst sound art {{!}} 1.6.-16.7}}</ref> sculpture, 16mm film, and video.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Helen Mirra {{!}} Video Data Bank |url=http://www.vdb.org/artists/helen-mirra |website=www.vdb.org |language=en}}</ref> "Environmental belonging" has been a persistent theme,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Helen Mirra, Hourly Directional - Art & Education |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/107383/helen-mirrahourly-directional/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |language=en}}</ref> while keeping within a restricted palette.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/158460|title=About This Artwork: Map of Parallel 52 North at a Scale of One Foot to One Degree|website=Art Institute of Chicago|year=1999}}</ref> Her first one-person institutional exhibition, ''Sky-wreck'', at the [[Renaissance Society]] at the [[University of Chicago]] in 2001, was an indigo-dyed textile sculpture of a section of the sky, imagined as part of a geodesic structure.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/425/helen-mirra-sky-wreck/|title=Helen Mirra: Skywreck|website=Renaissance Society}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Walker_2002.pdf|title=Thread-skies|last=Walker|first=Hamza|date=2001}}</ref> In addition to [[John Cage]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Camper_2005.pdf|title=Chicago Reader: Rethinking Thought: Helen Mirra|last=Camper|first=Fred|date=July 8, 2005}}</ref> Stanley Brouwn, [[André Cadere]], and [[Douglas Huebler]] are key influences.<ref name=":0" />


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She has an exhibition history in North and South America, Europe, and Japan,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/leaving-to-return/|title=Bienal de Cuenca|website=e-flux}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/archives/6263/|title=Helen Mirra at Taka Ishii Gallery}}</ref> and participated in broad international exhibitions such as the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th [[São Paulo Art Biennial]] and the 50th [[Venice Biennial]]. A fifteen-year (1995-2009) survey of her work, ''[https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/30943/helen-mirra/ Edge Habitat]'', was presented in 2014 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, and the corresponding publication ''Edge Habitat Materials'' was published by Whitewalls.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://listart.mit.edu/art-artists/publications/helen-mirra-edge-habitat-materials |title=Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009 |publisher=University of Chicago Press}}</ref>
Mirra has been artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley,<ref>{{Cite web|title = ARC Visiting Artists|url = http://arts.berkeley.edu/?page_id=80|accessdate = }}</ref> with the DAAD in Berlin,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Berliner Künstlerprogramm|url = http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/veroeffentlichungen.php|website = |accessdate = }}</ref> and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum : Mirra, Helen|url = http://www.gardnermuseum.org/contemporary_art/artists/helen_mirra|website = |accessdate = |first = |last = }}</ref> She taught for most of her early career, including as Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060424.mirra.shtml|title = Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus|date = March 31, 2006|accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> and as Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Visual and Environmental Studies faculty|url = http://static.fas.harvard.edu/registrar/courses/VisualandEnvironmentalStudies.html|website = |accessdate = }}</ref>


She was a Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago (2001-2005)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Stewart_2003.pdf|title=Muse and medium|last=Stewart|date=2003}}</ref> and a Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University until 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/mirra.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411112727/http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/mirra.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-11|title=Visual and Environmental Studies faculty: Helen Mirra|date=2013}}</ref> She has been an artist-in-residence at [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://arts.berkeley.edu/?page_id=80|title=ARC Visiting Artists}}</ref> and a guest of the [[DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Berliner Künstlerprogramm |url=https://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/artist/helen-mirra/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=}}</ref> She lives in Northern California.<ref>{{Cite web|last=lottozero|title=HELEN MIRRA|url=https://www.lottozero.org/portrait-helen-mirra?locale=en|language=en}}</ref>
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==Selected exhibitions==

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*[http://www.renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/425/helen-mirra-sky-wreck/ ''Sky-wreck''], [[Renaissance Society]]
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==Selected solo exhibitions==
*''Declining Interval Lands'', [[Whitney Museum of American Art]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Richard|first1=Frances|title=From Land and Sound to Thought|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Mirra_Whitney.pdf|work=Whitney Museum brochure|date=2002}}</ref>
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*[http://www.renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/425/helen-mirra-sky-wreck/ ''Sky-wreck''], [[Renaissance Society]], 2001
*''[http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/209 65 Instants]'', [http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/images/art/matrix/209/MATRIX_209_Helen_Mirra.pdf] Berkeley Art Museum
*''Declining Interval Lands<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hmirra.net/information/pdfs/Mirra_Whitney.pdf|title=From Land and Sound to Thought|last1=Richard|first1=Frances|date=2002|work=Whitney Museum brochure}}</ref>'', [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], 2002
*''[http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/helen-mirra-gehend-field-recordings-1-3/ Gehend]'', Bonner Kunstverein, KW Institute of Contemporary Art Berlin, and Haus Kontruktiv, Zurich
*''[https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/hourly-directional-helen-mirra-ernst-karel Hourly Directional]'' with Ernst Karel, MIT List Center
*''[https://bampfa.org/program/helen-mirra-matrix-209 65 Instants],'' MATRIX 209, Berkeley Art Museum, 2003
*''[http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/helen-mirra/ Hourly Directional]'', Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
*''[http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/helen-mirra-gehend-field-recordings-1-3/ Gehend]'', Bonner Kunstverein, KW Institute of Contemporary Art Berlin, and Haus Kontruktiv, Zurich, 2011-2012
*''[http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/helen-mirra/ Edge Habitat]'', Culturgest, Lisbon Portugal
*''[https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/hourly-directional-helen-mirra-ernst-karel Hourly Directional]'' with Ernst Karel, MIT List Center, 2014
*''[https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/107383/helen-mirrahourly-directional/ Hourly Directional],'' Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2014
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*''[http://www.peterfreemaninc.com/exhibitions/helen-mirra_2/ Waulked,]'', Peter Freeman Inc., New York<ref>{{cite news|last1=Farzin|first1=Media|title=Helen Mirra’s "Waulked"|url=http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/helen-mirra%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cwaulked%E2%80%9D/|work=Art Agenda|date=October 13, 2014}}</ref>
*''[http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/helen-mirra/ Edge Habitat]'', Culturgest, Lisbon Portugal, 2014
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*''Helen Mirra'', Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm<ref>{{cite news|last1=Andersson|first1=Axel|title=Tid omvandlad till konkret rumslighet|url=http://www.kunstkritikk.no/kritikk/tid-omvandlad-till-konkret-rumslighet|work=Kunstkritikk|date=September 1, 2015}}</ref>
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*''Waulked,'' <ref>{{cite news|last1=Farzin|first1=Media|title=Helen Mirra's "Waulked"|url=http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/helen-mirra%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cwaulked%E2%80%9D/|work=Art Agenda|date=October 13, 2014}}</ref> Peter Freeman Inc., New York, 2014
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*''Helen Mirra'', Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, 2015<ref>{{cite news|last1=Andersson|first1=Axel|title=Tid omvandlad till konkret rumslighet|url=http://www.kunstkritikk.no/kritikk/tid-omvandlad-till-konkret-rumslighet|work=Kunstkritikk|date=September 1, 2015}}</ref>
* [http://nordenhake.com/exhibitions/2018/n *], Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, 2018
*''la malplena ĉambro estas bela'', Large Glass, London, 2020


==References==
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Latest revision as of 22:44, 5 November 2024

Hendl Helen Mirra
Born(1970-12-31)December 31, 1970
Rochester New York
EducationBennington College, University of Illinois at Chicago

Hendl Helen Mirra[1] is an American conceptual artist. "[Like Henry David Thoreau, she is a] maximalist in a minimalist robe", with an idiosyncratic practice.[2] She is engaged with ideas common to buddhist[3][4][5] and pragmatist[6][7] philosophies, and since 2008 her art practice has been integrated with walking.[8] She has said of walking: "It is an unskilled activity, and a modest activity, and a free activity, and an always-available activity, and an equipment-free activity, and an active activity."[9] In an essay on Mirra's work, Yukio Lippit described her engagement thus: "Mirra’s practice champions walking as a specific form of thinking that bypasses language. Indeed, one senses that she shares with Zen Buddhists in particular a deep skepticism towards language as an authentic mechanism of discovery."[10] At the same time, she has often worked with language as a primary material.[11][12]

Career

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Hendl Mirra has worked in diverse media including weaving,[13] writing - particularly indexes,[14][15][16] experimental music,[17][18] sculpture, 16mm film, and video.[19] "Environmental belonging" has been a persistent theme,[20] while keeping within a restricted palette.[21] Her first one-person institutional exhibition, Sky-wreck, at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 2001, was an indigo-dyed textile sculpture of a section of the sky, imagined as part of a geodesic structure.[22][23] In addition to John Cage,[24] Stanley Brouwn, André Cadere, and Douglas Huebler are key influences.[9]

She has an exhibition history in North and South America, Europe, and Japan,[25][26] and participated in broad international exhibitions such as the 11th Havana Bienal, the 30th São Paulo Art Biennial and the 50th Venice Biennial. A fifteen-year (1995-2009) survey of her work, Edge Habitat, was presented in 2014 at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, and the corresponding publication Edge Habitat Materials was published by Whitewalls.[27]

She was a Senior Lecturer in Visual Art and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago (2001-2005)[28] and a Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University until 2013.[29] She has been an artist-in-residence at University of California at Berkeley,[30] and a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.[31] She lives in Northern California.[32]

Selected solo exhibitions

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References

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  1. ^ "Hendl Helen Mirra". www.hmirra.net. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  2. ^ Eleey, Peter (January 2006). "Reference Material". Frieze Magazine.
  3. ^ "HIGH LINE ART COMMISSION: Helen Mirra, Half-smiler | Friends of the High Line". Archived from the original on 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  4. ^ "Stephen Batchelor Talk". www.largeglass.co.uk.
  5. ^ ""Not-knowing is most intimate": Helen Mirra in Conversation with Emmalea Russo". artcritical. 2015-09-13. Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  6. ^ "BAMPFA - Helen Mirra / MATRIX 209 - 65 Instants". Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  7. ^ "Collection FRAC Lorraine | Helen Mirra:Human Ken, 24". collection.fraclorraine.org.
  8. ^ "Conscience de pierre press release". Galerie Nelson Freeman. 2010.
  9. ^ a b ""This is my interest anyway - to not-demand" - Interview with Helen Mirra - Features - Metropolis M".
  10. ^ Lippit, Yukio. ""Ambulations", gehend (Berlin: argobooks, 2013)" (PDF).
  11. ^ "reference to book coinciding with exhibition: Nueve años caminando en las laderas". nordenhake.com.
  12. ^ Mirra, Helen (2007). "Cloud, the, 3". JRP Ringier.
  13. ^ Smith, Roberta (3 January 2019). "Helen Mirra". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  14. ^ "Helen Mirra: Cloud, the, 3 | Events: Reading | The Renaissance Society".
  15. ^ "CABINET // Inventory / Index for Der Räuber". www.cabinetmagazine.org.
  16. ^ "Public art by Helen Mirra appearing across the University of Chicago campus". March 31, 2006.
  17. ^ "Paris Transatlantic recommendations".
  18. ^ "sonambiente berlin 2006 | festival für hören und sehen | klang kunst sound art | 1.6.-16.7".
  19. ^ "Helen Mirra | Video Data Bank". www.vdb.org.
  20. ^ "Helen Mirra, Hourly Directional - Art & Education".
  21. ^ "About This Artwork: Map of Parallel 52 North at a Scale of One Foot to One Degree". Art Institute of Chicago. 1999.
  22. ^ "Helen Mirra: Skywreck". Renaissance Society.
  23. ^ Walker, Hamza (2001). "Thread-skies" (PDF).
  24. ^ Camper, Fred (July 8, 2005). "Chicago Reader: Rethinking Thought: Helen Mirra" (PDF).
  25. ^ "Bienal de Cuenca". e-flux.
  26. ^ "Helen Mirra at Taka Ishii Gallery".
  27. ^ Edge Habitat Materials, Helen Mirra, survey 1995-2009. University of Chicago Press.
  28. ^ Stewart (2003). "Muse and medium" (PDF).
  29. ^ "Visual and Environmental Studies faculty: Helen Mirra". 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-04-11.
  30. ^ "ARC Visiting Artists".
  31. ^ "Berliner Künstlerprogramm".
  32. ^ lottozero. "HELEN MIRRA".
  33. ^ Richard, Frances (2002). "From Land and Sound to Thought" (PDF). Whitney Museum brochure.
  34. ^ Farzin, Media (October 13, 2014). "Helen Mirra's "Waulked"". Art Agenda.
  35. ^ Andersson, Axel (September 1, 2015). "Tid omvandlad till konkret rumslighet". Kunstkritikk.
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