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About Laramée Eve Andrée


Biography: Eve Andree Laramee is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and activist working at the confluence of art and science, specializing in the environmental and health impacts of Cold War atomic legacy sites. Her interest in the culture of science has enabled collaborations with physicists, hydrologists, geologists, biogeographers, and ecologists. Recent projects deal with climate change, sustainability, and the environmental health impacts of our nuclear legacy. In 1980 Laramée began zeroing-in on radioactive issues and atomic legacy sites where uranium mining/milling, plutonium production for nuclear weapons and the nuclear energy industry have contaminated surface water and land with radioactive isotopes. Radioactive contamination is invisible; visual art allows for multiple modes of visualizing the invisible through images and direct action through social-sculpture interventions deployed directly into communities raise environmental awareness, and activate community participation in remediation efforts. Laramee divides her time between Brooklyn, NY, Santa Fe, NM and Baltimore, MD, where she is Professor of Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Performance Art History at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her art has been exhibited throughout the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland, Israel, China, Japan, Poland and the Czech Republic. Her work is included in the collections of the MacArthur Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in numerous other public and private collections. Laramée has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation, New York Foundation for Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Museum.

Website: http://www.evelaramee.com

Contact Information:wander@earthlink.net

Eve Andree Laramee, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janiero

Two videos that advocate for a nuclear-free future by Eve Andree Laramee will be presented in the Uranium Film Festival at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janiero. Laramee’s videos will be presented in the experimental animation category: Burial at Los Alamos, exploring the ecologial and environmental legacy of research and development of nuclear weapons in Northern New Mexico; and Uranium Decay, in response to the ongoing Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear reactor triple meltdown. The festival opens on June 28 with Peter Greenaways film, Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth, and runs through July 14, 2012. The films will then travel to Germany and to India.

Program: http://www.uraniofestival.org/index.php/en/

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STRATA: The art and science panel for the exhibition “Earthwork” at Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY

Panelists: Dr. Jill Van Tongeren, Eve Andrée Laramée, Adrienne Klein, Del Geist, Alastair Noble (moderator)

William Smith is credited as the first person to create the very first geological map in 1815 known as Strata of England Wales & Scotland. This extraordinary 6×8 foot colorful engraving identified the layered stratification of rock that lay below the surface of the earth. Artists and scientists engaged in the earth sciences will reflect on and reveal their excavations of the mind and earth’s surface.

Alastair Noble is an environmental/installation artist and printmaker. His practice is a response to architecture and the natural environment and reflects on particular sites in the context of poetry and literature.

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