Lydia Moyer, The Teardrinkers at the Crow’s Nest
“Six channel video installation in a restored hay barn at the Crow's Nest Preserve in Warwick, PA.
2011 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. A good deal of media attention was paid to how the exclusion zone around the site has largely reverted to wilderness in the absence of humans. Animal populations have thrived and in some cases, long-gone species have returned, despite high levels of radiation.
The Tear Drinkers is based around three predator/prey pairs. The manner in which the animals are rendered is meant to suggest irradiation, a reference to how natural life continues, though altered, in the face of disaster. The projections play with how technology can be used to re-animate creatures caught in the still-death of photographs, transforming them into ghost-like, man-made approximations of the real thing.”
