LISA K BLATT

USA

&width&heightLisa K. Blatt is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in San Francisco. She graduated with MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute in 2006. Recent exhibitions include: ‘Paranoia’, The Freud Museum, London, 2007; ‘Close Calls’, Headland Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2007; 'Night Light‘ (solo show) in conjunction with 'Particulate Matter’, Mills College Art Museum, San Francisco, 2006; ‘The, There, There’, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 2006; ‘Random Mapping of San Francisco’, NoD Gallery, Prague, 2005; New Video Art," Burundi Gallery, Bratislava, 2005… For more information about the artist please visit www.lisakblatt.com



LISA K. BLATT
Marco Polo Redux, loop, 2003, video still
Courtesy of the artist

Older adults are playing children's swimming pool game of ‘Marco Polo’, where a person with closed eyes yells Marco and people hiding shout Polo, to give clues where they are so the searching person can find them. In this video work, the seeker yells Osama while the people hiding reply Bin Laden.