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In Knots + Surfaces, artist Diana Thater presents a large-scale, multiprojection video installation specifically designed to interact with the open architectural space of Dia’s third-floor gallery. A charged environment, combining layered projections with a
wall of clustered monitors, becomes the principal means for a metaphorical charting of multidimensional space. Referring to a recent mathematical hypothesis that correlates a complex, six-dimensional spatial model to a map of a honeybee's dance, Thater expands on her abiding concern with the intersection of nature and culture.
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| Checklist of Works |
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1. Knots + Surfaces, 2001
video installation
5 LCD video projectors, 16 video monitors, 6 DVD players, Lee filters, Madico window film,
existing architecture
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Diana Thater: Delphine. Vienna: Wiener Secession, 2000. Interview by Carol McMichael Reese.
Span: Jessica Bronson, Mariko Mori, Diana Thater. Auckland, Artspace, 1998. Text by Giovanni Intra.
The Best Animals Are the Flat Animals—The Best Space Is the Deep Space.. Ed. Peter Noever. Los Angeles: MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 1998. Text by Amelia Jones, Carol McMichael Reese, and Diana Thater.
Sculpture Projects in Münster 1997. Ed. Klaus Bussmann, Kaspar König, and Florian Matzner. Münster: Westfälisches Landesmuseum, in association with Verlag Hatje, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997.
Diana Thater: Selected Works 1992–1996. Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1996. Interview with Kathryn Kanjo.
Jurassic Technologies. Revenant. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1996. Texts by Leslie Camhi, Lynne Cooke, Jonathan Crary, Sarat Maharaj, and Elisabeth Sussman.
Diana Thater: China. Chicago: The Renaissance Society, 1995. Texts by Colin Gardner, Timothy Martin, and Diana Thater.
Witte de With: Cahier No. 3. Ed. Barbara van Kooij. Rotterdam: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 1995. Text by Timothy Martin and cover by Diana Thater.
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| Biography |
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Born in 1962 in San Francisco, Diana Thater studied art history at New York University and then acquired an MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1990. Since her first solo show at Dorothy Goldeen Gallery in Santa Monica in
1991, she has exhibited widely throughout North America and
Europe, including at numerous biennials, such as the Carnegie International (1999), Johannesburg Biennial (1997), Whitney Biennial (1997, 1995), Sydney Biennial (1996), Kwangju Biennial (1995), and the Lyon Biennial (1995). In addition to
one person shows at such venues as the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (1998), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1997), Kunsthalle Basel (1996), The Renaissance Society, Chicago (1996), and Witte de With, Rotterdam (1994), her most recent museum exhibitions were held at the Tentsta Konsthalle, Stockholm (2001) and the Wiener Secession (2000). Thater lives and works in Los Angeles.
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| Funding |
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Funding for this exhibition has been provided by the Lannan Foundation and the members of the Dia Art Council.
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