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DIANE SILVER : TORRENT STREAM

2,857 views · Published 29 August 2016 · 3:17 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS · 2016 · Education

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Film by Eric Minh Swenson.

Torrent Stream uses our binary world to explore our strained relationship with water, highlighting the extreme disparity between our apparent societal advancement and the planet that houses it. This disparity becomes more apparent in Los Angeles, where the river that flows through the city is a stream at best and illequipped to provide water for a large metropolis. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, William D. Mulholland reengineered the river to bring water from the Owens River Valley and Abbott Kinney moved huge quantities of dirt to bring water into the canal system in Venice. The installation creates an aqueous landscape, at some moments crystal clear, and at others muddied, refracted, and yet completely dependent on manmade materials. Through a variety of multimedia practices, T orrent Stream is an installation that reflects on the bits and pieces that not only expedite water into our city but ultimately define our city.

Diane Silver lives and works in her home city of Los Angeles. Silver’s quiet, organized aesthetic is accentuated through her use of minimal tones and multimedia practice, merging contemporary tropes with cathartic painting to explore the relationship between our virtual and physical worlds. Her binary world is distilled through light, space, and illusion, eliminating preciousness to create pieces that are open and direct in their presentation. She has attended ArtCenter College of Design and California State University of Northridge where she received her BFA. Silver has exhibited at LACMA, Coagula Curatorial, Gallery 825, and the Dallas Art Fair.

Named after the eclectic and vibrant artist and film maker, Mike Kelley (d. 2012), the Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque hosts established and emerging artists from around the world. Beyond Baroque is one of the United States' leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public's knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. Many of the city's leading literary talents, including Dennis Cooper, Wanda Coleman, Tom Waits, Exene Cervenka and Amy Gerstler, are alumni of the Wednesday night poetry workshop, and some of the world’s most well known independent artists, including Patti Smith, Michael McClure, Dana Gioia, and Viggo Mortensen have performed on its stage.

For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at thuvanarts.com/take1

Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts : http://m.huffpost.com/us/author/eric-minh-swenson/

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