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brother, the struggle to regain the use of his hands after a serious injury transforms into a narrative about agency in the face of being forgotten, marginalized and deemed of no importance. An out-of-print photography book on
Portuguese stone pavements leads to a series of improbable connections. A tour of a neurobiology lab leads to an examination of a Cold War re-education camp where prisoners were forced to dig up stones to create replicas of antiquity while covertly drawing on stone shards to mark and then bury a trace of their stories. In
302:. The Tara is a sailboat designed to withstand the pressure of the polar ice cap. Stuck, with little ability to communicate with the outside world, the near constant darkness weighed upon the boat's passengers. Ga, in her account of their eventual release from the ice, describes seeing light for the first time: "At that moment," she writes in the
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follows the mysteries surrounding prehistoric stone tools from Kenya alongside the neglected labor of stonemasons who paved the streets of Lisbon. The humble gesture of these artisans, stooped over the pavement, morphs into a confrontation with the hubristic act of monument building. For the artist's
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Clandestino Festival, The Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg writes: "...her own willingness to drift and follow uncertain turns carries her unexpectedly to the Greek islands of Symi and Lesvos, during the summer of 2015. Ga decides to join a team of volunteers aiding
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Ga's writing is closely tied to her performative practice. In an essay on Ellie Ga's work, Lauren O'Neill-Butler writes, "her lyrical essays—her voiceovers and written texts—are as equally concerned with humans as they are with the lives, histories, and migrations of objects, particularly the lost
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In 2011, Ga studied marine archeology at the
University of Alexandria's Centre for Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage in Alexandria Egypt. This was the basis for a series of videos and performances about the submerged ruins of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria, including the
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writes: "Ga's narration interweaves seemingly disparate accounts and retellings, blending history, research, and autobiography. She encounters beachcombers who gather the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami in Japan; an oceanographer who studies the debris from container spills; and the histories of
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writes: "Ellie Ga is an artist of the intrepid. Charting a course from
Patagonia to the North Pole, she voyages through histories, mythologies and languages, navigating the role of the artist on a precarious planet. Her points of latitude are chance meetings, accidents and coincidences."
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From 2014-2017 Ga was the recipient of a fellowship from the
Swedish Research Council. Initially her research project was centered on ocean drift and more specifically the narratives and history of the message in a bottle. The project developed into the video installation
384:, a triptych of short videos. Ga's voice-over narrates as collected images are arranged and re-arranged on a light box surface, weaving together experiences of loss and grief, the transient nature and meaning of personal items displaced by disasters.
92:(born 1976 in New York City) is an American artist, writer and performer. Ga produces narratives in the form of video installations, performances and artist's books. She is a Guggenheim 2022 Fellow in film and video. She received an MFA from the
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asylum seekers and refugees—a definitive turning point at which she is forced to wrestle not only with the poetics of accidental drift and the new discoveries it beckons, but with urgent political and humanitarian realities."
306:, "a lighthouse blinking in the distance became a symbol for our anxieties about the future: it marked our return to civilization." The series included performances, installations and videos, and was shown at
425:, a near-extinct street-paving technique with a complex legacy - the labor was often performed by prisoners - that produced dizzying mosaics from irregularly shaped fragments of basalt and limestone."
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objects and images on a light table, moving them from the center to the margins, and then offscreen. The triptych concludes with a fascinating history of
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896:"Submerged Ruins: An Interview with Visual Artist Ellie Ga"
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1291:"Measuring the Circle, Ellie Ga, 2013-2014"
526:"John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation"
270:, Ugly Duckling Presse, February 15, 2009 (
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625:"Ellie Ga: Square, Octagon, Circle"
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508:"Ellie Ga: It Was Restored Again"
1408:"Strophe, A Turning av Ellie Ga"
1362:"CCS Bard Galleries, 'Honey, I'"
650:"Ugly Duckling Presse - History"
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999:"ELLIE GA: Strophe, A Turning"
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483:"Collection Online - Ellie Ga"
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554:"Bureau - Artists - Ellie Ga"
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128:. Max L. Feldman, in a 2018
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867:"Walking Drifting Dragging"
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343:Eureka, A Lighthouse Play
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55:Hunter College, New York,
327:Lighthouse of Alexandria
300:Reading the Deck of Tara
209:Reading the Deck of Tara
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1067:"Ellie Ga - Gyres 2019"
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843:"Square Octagon Circle"
748:"Whitney Biennial 2019"
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1433:"Ellie Ga | Gyres 1-3"
222:, Siglio Press, 2018 (
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339:Measuring the Circle,
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580:"In Praise of Drift"
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360:Strophe, A Turning.
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1466:Ellie Ga on Vimeo
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256:978-2-36582-021-9
242:978-1-946433-14-5
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