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Hand Held Lava
Ilana Halperin, Karen Holmberg & Andrew Patrizio

A digital project, part of Bad Actors
  • Ilana Halperin is a New York– and Glasgow-based artist.
  • Karen Holmberg is an archaeologist specializing in volcanic regions who has taught at Brown and Stanford Universities.
  • Andrew Patrizio is an art historian at Edinburgh College of Art.
“Hand Held Lava” originated as a performance hosted by Triple Canopy at 177 Livingston, Brooklyn, on October 8, 2010. The videos included here were selected from a montage of clips found online, edited by Dana Kash, and shown during the performance. The project has since been performed at Cell Projects in London, Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, and Turner Contemporary in Margate, England. “Hand Held Lava” was commissioned by Triple Canopy through its 2010 call for proposals for the New Programming project area, supported in part by the Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York Council for the Humanities.
Tags: History, Mythology, Performance, Science
13 Bad Actors
  • Origin, Departure, by Murad Khan Mumtaz & Alyssa Pheobus
  • Esfir, by Yelena Akhtiorskaya
  • Hand Held Lava, by Ilana Halperin, Karen Holmberg & Andrew Patrizio
  • Tektite Revisited, by James Merle Thomas & Meghan O’Hara
  • The Age of Dissolution, by Bidisha Banerjee
  • The Tale of the Big Computer, by Anna Lundh
  • Another Portrait of Jason, by Matt Wolf
  • The Hanging at Mankato, by Claire Barliant
  • Matter of Rothko, by David Levine
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