
Forest Spirit Rising
site specific video installation
Allison Kotzig
The Projects
2015
This piece is both a conceptual work as well as a portrait of a spirit I saw lingering by a remote Carpathian forest road earlier this year.
Conceptually, this work is part of the Ouroboros series which uses the pelvic bone to discuss Infinity. Although it is a bone, representing death, it houses the womb and is the architecture of creation, thereby symbolizing eternal fertility and the Life-Death-Re-Birth cycle. The infinity sign can be seen in the shapes on the bone.
Long hair is an almost universal sign of fertility, which is why very long hair on old women evinces anger, confusion and fear among many. The torrential growth and flow of the long hair on this mask of death unsettles the viewer as it discusses the latent power and strength in death.
The Nest, woven from a deeply black recycled material, is also a place of generation, here, one is uncertain of what is being generated.
The firepit brings us back to the Paleolithic, in order to recreate a feeling of eternity.
The video projected over the entirety of the piece is of a forest as seen from a moving car. It is both inclusive and an outsider’s view of mystery.
Forest Spirit Rising installation
Portfolio
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Kuchyna Carodjenice installation component: Embroidery Series
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Kuchyna Carodjenice installation component: Embroidery Series
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Centaur Forest Wall video installation
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Irreversible Forest Wall Video Installation
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Nest
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Installation for Coral Gables Museum of Art
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Forest Spirit Rising installation
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Forest Landing Installation (interior)
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The Closet aka Centaur Forest site-specific installation
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Centaur Forest video
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Irreversible Forest video
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Irreversible Forest: site-specific interactive video installation for Art Miami 2014
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Dark Ouroboros Video Installation 2
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Dark Ouroboros video installation 1
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Dark Ouroboros
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Death Mask of the Fertile Crone
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Empty Nest
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Ouroboros : Nest / Egg
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Untitled
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Vagina Bird (purple)
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Vagina Bird (green)
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Summer Reverie
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Drowning in the Ghosts of the Night Sea (Video Still)
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Ouroboros: Nest
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Ouroboros 2
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Ouroboros: Venus
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Ouroboros Clomid
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Victor, sculpture in progress, 2014
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Untitled 2, sculpture in progress, 2014
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Jackpot!
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The Mirror
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VAGINALIENS ATTACK! in installation at New Material Art Fair
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Mariana’s Trench in New Material Art Fair Installation
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New Material Art Fair Installation View
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Here Be Monsters
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When Vaginas Ruled the Earth
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Ouroboros
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Leuprolide
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Oh Wait, We Have a Better Idea (Panel 2)
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Oh Wait, We Have a Better Idea (Panel 1)
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Nest Box Installation for Irreversible Magazine
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The Hedge, Giants in The City: Monumental Inflatable Sculpture
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You Bastard
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F.U. St. Thomas Aquinas
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Pitch to Win!
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Untitled
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Ransom Valentines: Now You Will Never Ever Leave Me
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Ransom Valentines: The Police Will Never Understand Our Love
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Ransom Valentines: Roses are Red Like that Bloodstain
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Ransom Valentines: Roses are Red I am Outside in Your Bushes
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Florida Serial Killer: Car
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Florida Serial Killer: Clown
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Florida Serial Killer: Bus Stop Girl
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Florida Serial Killer: Hairy Pussy
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Florida Serial Killer: Neighbor
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Florida Serial Killer: Runaway