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Sept.
16, 2002 |
Student's Artistic Reaction to Sept. 11 Will
Be Presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art
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Video still from Colleen Mulrenan's
Daughter, September 13 |
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After the World Trade Center
attacks on Sept. 11, Colleen Mulrenan waited two days for her
father come home from his job as a deputy chief for the New York
City Fire Department.
When he did return home to Warwick, an hour north
from Ground Zero, Mulrenan did the only practical thing she could
think of: She began to clean by hand his work shirts covered thick
with soot and debris since he needed a clean uniform for the next
day.
Mulrenan, an MFA student in electronic art at
Rensselaer, documented her experience in a video titled Daughter,
September 13. The video, largely depicting Mulrenan washing
her father's shirts in a sink, will be featured in "riverrun,"
an exhibition of film and video works presented in New York City
by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Minetta Brook, a nonprofit
arts organization.
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The exhibition, featuring Mulrenan and five
other artists, will be projected onto the facade of the 110-foot-tall
Holland Tunnel Ventilation Building in New York. Mulrenan's
video is the only work in the exhibit that represents the
emotional impact of the World Trade Center tragedy.
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Nightly screenings run Sept. 21 through Oct. 4,
from dusk to 10:20 p.m., at the Lower Manhattan Waterfront, Pier
34. The displays are free and open to the public.
Mulrenan's four-minute video incorporates sampled
sounds. At first, one hears the scrubbing of laundry. Then voices
of emergency crew talking via scanners and radios fill the background.
Toward the end, voices of children begin to sing in Spanish, welcoming
home the surviving firefighters.
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