Lisa Fox Presents Nomad Two Worlds

 

Week Long Schedule of events: 23-29 January 2009

DONNA KARAN'S Stephan Weiss Studio
711 Greenwich Street, Greenwich Village

This is a Satellite event of Australia Week

Lisa Fox (lf8) is producing Nomad Two Worlds -- a presentation of Australian art based on a cause with profound, universal impact -- the reconciliation of the Australian government with its Indigenous citizens. 

The exhibit is multi-disciplinary collaboration conceived by contemporary art photographer, Russell James, and co-created with Indigenous Australians. The initiative will be an immersive and moving exhibition, incorporating work by preeminent aboriginal artist, Clifton Bieundurry, and other Australian artists working in a range of mediums.

The project has involved years of groundwork, including travel to remote, hauntingly beautiful regions of Australia, where senior custodians escorted participating artists to sacred -- often restricted -- burial grounds, gorges and desert locations.  This artistic collaboration includes on-site structures created by Indigenous artists in NW Australia -- installations subsequently filmed, photographed and enhanced by the artistic collaborative -- and James' monumental landscape photographs, hand-embellished by the artists.

Indigenous artists and Australian didgeridoo players and entertainers will fly to New York to present at the exhibition.

The project incorporates a documentary film compenent by Alison Thompson (The Third Wave).

To see the electronic press clip and features of the exhibit, or to see the week long schedule of events around the exhibit, go to www.nomadtwoworlds.com.