About this Event
Artist Marina Zurkow and curator Christiane Paul will discuss Zurkow’s exhibition Parting Worlds and her Hyundai Terrace Commission at the Whitney Museum of American Art (through January 11, 2026). The conversation will explore the three software-driven animations shown at the museum — Mesocosm (Wink, TX) (2012), The Earth Eaters (2025), and The River is A Circle (2025) — in the context of the artist’s broader practice. Zurkow’s work has consistently engaged with the complexity of ecological and social systems and the effects of their temporal and cyclical structure. The artist will discuss how she has addressed planetarity, our interdependence with Earth as a planet, geological time, and fossil fuel formation across various media in different presentation formats. Zurkow’s work process and the technicalities of creating her art — from animation and software to card games and food-based pieces — will also be a focus of the dialogue. The conversation will investigate environmental change due to human intervention, natural evolution, and the role of art in probing possibilities of renewal.
Photo: Yi Hsuan Lai
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, United States
USD 0.00
