Michael Lasater. Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO. Solo exhibition, December 13, 2013 – January 14, 2014.
South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN. Solo exhibition, March 10 - July 8, 2012.
Tryst (2013)
Single-channel HD video, stereo.
Digital video, digitized archive film, digital and digitized photos, sampled sound, animation.
I began work on Tryst with the title Iphigenia in mind – the wall entombing the female figure, the wind pushing a bank of clouds across a black sky, the mocking dance of the sailor-suited figure, the muffled drum cadence – all these elements were suggested to me by Iphigenia’s fated betrayal and death at the hand of Agamemnon, her father. But as the piece began to come together, I saw that it could be taken to generally reference the idea of “tryst,” usually taken to mean a rendezvous between lovers, but in this case perhaps not.