The End is Something We Don't Expect: Conversations on The Violet Hour

Jen Liu + Sara Krajewski on The Violet Hour

A conversation with Henry Associate Curator Sara Krajewski and exhibiting artist Jen Liu, whose work is featured in The Violet Hour on view at the Henry Art Gallery through October 19, 2008. Jen Liu’s videos and large scale watercolor drawings feature the “Brethren of the Stone,” a back-to-nature cult that clashes with modern industrial society. Beyond the battle between nature and technology, her work underscores issues of state power and civil disobedience, modernity and nostalgia, and a comical take on science fiction and recent pop culture. Sara and Jen discuss the exhibition’s apocalyptic themes, her work in The Violet Hour, T.S. Eliot, heavy metal music, and death.

http://www.henryart.org/audiovideo/JenLiu_VH.mp3