Campus Stories - Stanford Arts Institute
Artist takes performance to new heights at Stanford biological preserve
Visiting artist Ann Carlson is no stranger to unconventional performance sites, including frozen ponds, dairy farms and trains. But her latest project took her to new heights: Stanford’s biological preserve in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. “Picture Jasper Ridge is a way to connect to the history that we stand on. It’s an…
Stanford visiting artist Ellen Lake creates a cultural paradox across decades
Ellen Lake discovered a golden age of 16mm film. For a brief period the diacetate Kodachrome film used between 1939 and 1942 produced lush color and appears today perfectly preserved, as opposed to triacetate film that came into popular use in the mid-1940s and did not hold up nearly as well. Lake, a visiting artist at…
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