CYRK Created by Ursula Brookbank Presented by SHE WORLD PRODUCTIONS and Automata Produced by Stephanie Kern With Emily Lacy, Sallie Merkel, Natalie Shriver, Laura Steenberge, and Dan Rae Wilson February 20-23, 2014 at Automata
CYRK is an uncanny history of the She Clown recalled through music, immersive performance, installation and film. Mementos and relics assembled from the SHE WORLD ARCHIVE of artist Ursula Brookbank disclose a life's story as the audience moves through a topsy-turvy world of nomadic recollection.
Ursula Brookbank is a Los Angeles based artist, who works in the mediums of film, video and photography. She received a BFA in Painting at the University of Florida in 1975. Relocating to LA in 1976, Brookbank started as a darkroom technician in a commercial photo studio, and has been an Art Director for still photography and video productions since 1979. Her image-based work currently engages the feminine detritus of her SHE WORLD ARCHIVE in an ongoing participatory and collaborative dialogue. Her work has been recently shown in Los Angeles at the Echo Park Film Center, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Craftswoman, the Center for Living Arts in Mobile, Alabama and Krowswork, Oakland, California..
