Rijksakademie Open Studios 2024

Lili Huston-Herterich US/CA

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Second Floor

Lili Huston-Herterich has a situated practice both materially and conceptually: she works with what she is in close vicinity to in order to develop a dialogue from her current position historically, geographically, and economically. She is conscious of her role as a maker in a cultural context of excess, and uses capitalist culture's flotsam and jetsam to create work that reflects a dependency on her present.

Her studio practice focuses on personal and political lineages of information – specifically on improvisational and dialogue-based methods of knowledge transmission. She is currently working towards new work that tells a story of Peg Miller, an American artist who lived in a bank building in Spring Green, Wisconsin for the last thirty years of her life. In this process, she is employing scriptwriting that departs from interview transcriptions, quiltmaking, video production, and puppetry.

Often historically used to share dissident stories, puppetry is used in the video work The Treasury to perform a collective recollection of an artist who survived addiction and made her own economy. A small history becomes a portrait of both an artists’ life and the disturbance of a financial institution’s transition. The Treasury is a memorial for a joyful misuse of space.

Rijksakademie
Open Studios 2024

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    De Gijselaar Hintzenfonds
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