Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for her
large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance
collaborations. Responsive to the contingencies of the sites where she
works, her recurring forms—cloth, texts spoken and written, animals, and
people suspended or in motion—immerse viewers in an atmosphere both
visceral and literary, individual and collective, animate and inanimate,
silent and spoken. Michael Mercil received an MFA from the University
of Chicago in 1988, and a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art &
Design in 1978. His art explores the realms of “the near, the low, the
common” in works somewhere close to—if not always within—the categories
of sculpture, drawing, painting, landscape architecture, film,
performance, and farming. Recorded on Apr. 28, 2022.
