As an experimental documentary, CLIME brings attention to the vitality and safety of public space, particularly the East River Park in New York City.
SHERRY ERSKINE’s career in the arts encompasses a wide array of interdisciplinary and collaborative experiences in visual arts, music, theater and art education. Motivated by myth-making and Jungian psychology, Erskine’s artistic practice investigates experimental approaches to portraiture. Her photography and video has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally. Notably, she received a grant in 2019 from the US Fulbright Specialist's Program to teach and develop works in East Africa. Erskine co-founded GOH Productions and IGUANA Collaborative with Bonnie Sue Stein.
BONNIE SUE STEIN is a director, writer, producer, artist, community organizer, and Executive and Artistic Director of GOH Productions, a non profit she founded in 1984 in New York City with Sherry Erskine and Marika Blossfeldt. With GOH she creates and produces performance and film projects in the USA, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Small and large-scale productions in New York City range from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to Bohemian National Hall and The United Nations General Assembly. Stein’s films include producing Faust on a String, a documentary about the history of Czechoslovak puppetry; and writing and co-producing BUTOH: Body on the Edge of Crisis with Michael Blackwood Productions and Rusty Whetted Whistle, which was shown at Cannes.
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I find her focus on myth-making and Jungian psychology particularly fascinating, as Block Blast adds a rich layer of meaning to her experimental portraiture.