Scott Rogers
Killing Hornets
September 17–October 16, 2010

Scott Rogers’ video and sculpture installation: Killing Hornets explores an innocuous domestic activity (getting rid of unwanted insects) as a subtle meditation on the nature of life and death, the flow of time and the complexity of human and species conflict.

A sculpture made from an old recliner chair serves as a site for a replacement hornet nest made from chicken wire and papier mache;

Two videos play behind the chair; one of a tipped over recliner being filled with water and another of four hornets trapped in glass jars.

A poster featuring a “mind map” drawing and a sketch of the recliner sculpture is available to the public as a free “artist multiple” work.