Lucy Raven and Deantoni Parks to Present 'Murderers Bar' Film-Performance at Aspen Art Museum on July 28
The Facts
Lucy Raven and Deantoni Parks will present a film-performance of Raven's 'Murderers Bar' (2025) on July 28, 2026, at 8:30pm in a high alpine meadow at T-Lazy-7 Ranch in the Roaring Fork Valley, near Maroon Bells. The event, produced in collaboration with Aspen Music Festival and School, marks the first outdoor presentation of the film, projected vertically on a monumental curved screen set among aspens with Pyramid Peak as backdrop. The film traces the surge of water downstream to the Pacific following the detonation of a century-old dam along the Klamath River in Northern California, using aerial cinematography and underwater imaging. Parks leads an ensemble of strings, percussion, and wind instruments in a newly commissioned score that responds to the film's rhythms of flow, rupture, and release.
The Signal
'Murderers Bar' is the final installment in Raven's 'The Drumfire' (2021–25), a series exploring infrastructural systems and changing material states. The work centers on the largest dam removal in US history, which followed decades of advocacy by Tribal Nations including the Yurok, Karuk, Klamath, and Shasta Indian Nation, and is part of a broader river restoration effort to revive threatened Chinook and Coho salmon habitats. The performance stages the fragility and resilience of river ecosystems within a landscape within a landscape, offering a live encounter that amplifies the film's exploration of the entanglement of physical environment with human activity and cultural practices.
- Artists: Lucy Raven, Deantoni Parks
- Galleries: Lisson Gallery
- Museums: Aspen Art Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery
- Locations: Aspen, Roaring Fork Valley, Maroon Bells
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