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ERIN WILKERSON

American guerilla gardener turned feral filmmaker and visual artist, Erin Wilkerson, is the co-founder of the political art collective Creative Agitation. She has exhibited in the Venice Biennale, the Viennale, and the Berlinale. Her film, “Nuclear Family” (2021), co-directed with her partner, Travis Wilkerson, was awarded Mencion Especial at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, screened in 20+ festivals, and is distributed by Arsenal (Berlin). Grounded in ecology thanks to her early professional work in landscape architecture, her solo practice is deeply rooted in the exploration of global narratives and has exhibited internationally including, The Second Burial (2023), which streamed on MUBI Latin America. And has shown at DOKUFEST (Kosovo), Prismatic Ground (New York), FICUNAM (Mexico City), Arica Docs (Chile), INTERSECCION (Spain), and was just honored with a retrospective at Filmoteca Galicia (Spain) and a solo gallery show, “Nuclear Family: Fieldwork” at Foundación Luis Seoane. She developed the methodology of ‘feral filmmaking,’ or a wilding of cinema through an intensive theoretical study of Invasive Species, for her PhD in Research and Practice from Liverpool John Moores University, in partnership with the TransArt Institute. Has given masterclasses at Union Docs and Hamburg Dokumentarfilmwoche. And is currently a lecturer in Media and Arts at Duke Kunshan University, where she teaches to a diverse student body comprised of nearly 70 countries, and is the founder and director of the university's, Cinematic Futures Film Festival.

mixed media

OBJECTIVE DECAY

Digital collage of canonical femininity over photographs of Anthropocene disasters. Selections from a series of 7.

Objective Decay, Collage, Erin Wilkerson
Objective Decay, Collage, Erin Wilkerson
Objective Decay, Collage, Erin Wilkerson
A MONTANA MILE

Acrylic on canvas of the Berkeley Pit. A mining Superfund Site, gashed into the mountain above the town of Butte, Montana.

A Montana Mile, Painting, Erin Wilkerson, Berkeley Pit, Butte
AMERICAN PASTORAL

From a collection of 200 Polaroids of the American West. Examples shown are from nuclear missile silos in Montana. 

American Pastoral, Montana, Polaroid,  Nuclear Family, Erin Wilkerson
DOMESTIC INDUSTRY

Illustrations of Detroit factory ruins on found plates.

Domestic Industry, Erin Wilkerson, found object art, Erin Wilkerson
UNKNOWN MINE, McKINLEY COUNTY, NM

Acrylic on canvas. From a series of 3 paintings of overhead views of nuclear and coal mines on indigenous Navajo and Hopi Reservations.

Unknown Mine, Painting, Erin Wilkerson
DUCK + COVER

Oil pastel on found Cold War Era educational book. Series of 12.

Duck + Cover, Drawing on Found Print, Erin Wilkerson
Duck + Cover, Drawing on Found Print, Erin Wilkerson
AMERICAN LANDSCAPES

Digital collage of photographs of immigrants on traditional picturesque landscape paintings. 

American Landscape, Erin Wilkerson, collage
American Landscape, Erin Wilkerson, collage
American Landscape, Erin Wilkerson, collage
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