Carolyn Lambert
Research Interests
My work over the past decade has developed as a response to the conditions of human-created climate change and the related issues of ecological devastation and collapse, with a focus on an affective and psychological lens (e.g. experiences of grief, anger and anxiety). I work primarily in video, combining material that I shoot myself with a range of found & appropriated images—I aim to connect the specific and small to the pervasive and global. My approach has been to combine texts (theoretical references, personal writing, product descriptions, and overheard conversations) and footage (both found and hand-shot) in a process of montage. This traffic between the personal and the social, formally and conceptually, is a central emphasis in my work, which is informed by wide-ranging engagement with the world of visual culture, drawing on the aesthetics of popular film, stock images and advertisements, journalism, and the 1st-person POV of social media.
Biography
Carolyn Lambert is an artist working in video, installation and performance. Her work engages with the vulnerability of living in a time of environmental turmoil and mass extinction. Lambert has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Drawing Center, Eyebeam, and SculptureCenter (New York) and La Mirage (Montreal). Screenings of her work have occurred at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück (Germany), Bomb Factory (UK), and MUMOK (Vienna, AU). She has received support from institutions such as the Banff Center, and Carnegie Mellon University’s Studio for Creative Inquiry, and her work has been supported by foundations outside of the arts such as the National Wildlife Federation and the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research.