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Nicking the Never
Marina Zurkow
March 29, 2006-May 6, 2006
Opening reception: March 28, 2006 6-9 pm
UCI’s Beall Center for Art and Technology is pleased to announce the west coast premiere of “Nicking the
Never” by Marina Zurkow.
Nicking the Never is an animated seven channel video installation, a set of allegories about a young girl stuck
in a kinetic world of emotional pitfalls. This kaleidoscopic trip into the self is based on the structure of the
Tibetan Wheel of Life, a Buddhist teaching tool whose images luridly and vividly divide the human struggle into
the elements of need, jealousy, complacence, aggression, desire, ego, and stasis. Borrowing this taxonomy,
the seven emotional realms play out on a labyrinthine arrangement of seven screens. Located sound spatially
orients the viewer to the narrative rises and falls within each screen. The viewer drifts through the looping and
color-coded realms, immersed in a dreamy, sometimes humorous, sometimes perverse space.
CREDITS
Concept origin, direction and animation: Marina Zurkow
Music: Lem Jay Ignacio
Nicking the Never is a project of Creative Capital, with generous support from Creative Capital, The Jerome
Foundation, and The Media Arts Fellowship (supported by the Rockefeller Foundation).
