Women Who Rock !
An interactive installation presented on 12 LED screens spanning the exterior façade of the Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT) 42nd Street NYC, Harms’ Women Who Rock ! premiered during Women’s History Month in March 2019. (Interactive platform provided by Coolture-Impact.) The first segment of this ongoing series featured 3 iconic musical artists: Cher, Joni Mitchell & Tina Turner, with rock photography courtesy ©Norman Seeff.
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GIBTOWN
Site-specific installation accompanying film screening of the documentary GIBTOWN: an atmospheric documentary film portrait of the residents and community of Gibsonton, Florida, USA, the off-season and retirement home of thousands of circus and carnival workers.
Loretta Harms
GIBTOWN Installation View
Canvas printed photography, lighting, wooden supports
Exhibition and film screening: Lotos Club, NYC
Based on the documentary GIBTOWN
To view the film & trailer: vimeo.com/ondemand/gibtown
CLOSE-UP
Site-specific Installation with Super-8mm Film Loop
“Double Take,” the new exhibition at the Mills Gallery, bills itself as “installations about looking into, through and around.” Unlike most paintings and sculpture, which are passive objects, the pieces in “Double Take” force viewers to consider exactly how they view.
Loretta Harms’ 'Close-Up’ makes you look at yourself real closely. She has carved a pupil-sized hole in a hand-held mirror hanging at eye-level. In order to peer into the hole, you have to get so intimate with the mirror that you steam it up with your breath. Inside, the artist has set up a tiny, black-and-white video monitor, over which dance Pinocchio, his head swollen and twirling, a huge dragon puppet, and a Frankenstein’s monster, show in extreme close-up, the camera tracing a map from mouth to eye to hairline.”
– CATE McQUAID, The Boston South End News
RUNAWAY TRAIN:
Hitchcock’s ‘Marnie’ and Human Locomotion
Site-specific installation
Boston Center for the Arts - Curated by M. Darcie Alexander
Installation view
Film stills, floor mirror, carpet runner, train tracks, sound loops
“The sense of passage and sequence is granted a physical manifestation in Loretta Harms’ installation. Harms constructs a space in which tracking is a primary metaphor both for the movement of the camera and the physical motion of the spectator through the installation. Coupling mirrors with images, Harms invites a form of self-monitoring as the process of walking and watching is undertaken. Harms propels the spectator into the gradually unfolding narrative of her cinematic series.” – M. DARSIE ALEXANDER, Curator
“Harms uses a series of film stills from the opening scene of the classic Hitchcock thriller, in which a woman is walking down a railway platform with her back to the camera. By walking alongside the makeshift track Harms has erected, you can glimpse your footsteps in a mirror; you can watch yourself in concert with the camera moving down the track in pursuit of the woman with the yellow bag. Harms displays how a camera walks and watches, and how we can cut film, or stop our own motion in a mirror, to monitor the action taking place.” – JEFFREY J. NEDEAU, Boston South End News
Keep Dennis Out of the Loop
Off-Broadway multimedia performance with projected film sequences, sound and interactive sets - Synchronicity Space, NYC
One-act play revolving around the absurd circumstances of a group of actors and a main character refusing to play the lead.
Written by Loretta Harms
Co-directed by Loretta Harms and Karen Kimmel
Produced by David Unger