Lisson Gallery Artist Lucy Raven Stages Murderers Bar Film-Performance in Aspen July 28
Lucy Raven and Deantoni Parks will present Raven’s Murderers Bar (2025) on July 28 at T-Lazy-7 Ranch in the Roaring Fork Valley. The film-performance features a newly commissioned ensemble score by Parks and marks the first outdoor presentation of the work, projected on a curved screen against Pyramid Peak. The film uses aerial and underwater imagery to trace the Klamath River after the removal of a century-old dam, following water flow to the Pacific and the return of salmon upstream. Produced with Aspen Music Festival and School and presented with Aspen Art Museum, the event includes strings, percussion and wind instruments.
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The performance concludes Raven’s The Drumfire series (2021–25), originally co-commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery and Vega Foundation. It centers on the largest dam removal in U.S. history, undertaken after advocacy by the Yurok, Karuk, Klamath and Shasta Indian Nation tribes to restore Chinook and Coho salmon habitats. The work positions the river as an active force that exceeds human infrastructure, linking material transformation to cultural and environmental histories.
- Artists: Lucy Raven, Deantoni Parks
- Galleries: Lisson Gallery
- Museums: Aspen Art Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery
- Locations: Aspen
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