Description

EAI paid tribute to artist Nancy Holt (1938-2014) with a daylong celebration of her extraordinary film and video works. EAI screened twelve of Holt's moving-image pieces, which span the years 1968 to 2013, honoring her life through a daylong immersion in her work.

A pioneer of earthworks and land art, Holt is perhaps best known for her large-scale environmental sculptures and public art projects. Beginning in the late 1960s, Holt created a significant body of film and video works that explore perception and memory through experiments with point of view and process. Holt's early videos include some of the most important and iconic works in the medium. Among the pieces that were screened were pivotal videos such as Underscan (1976) and Revolve (1977), the evocative landscape film Pine Barrens (1975), and several key collaborations with Robert Smithson, including Swamp (1971) and East Coast West Coast (1969). Covering a span of forty-five years, the screening will include Holt's Mono Lake, which she originally recorded in 1968, as well as her final piece, the 2013 The Making of Amarillo Ramp.