Generations#1

is a two part performance and film installation project by Melanie Maar and Lindsay Packer. The first performance took place at Center for Performance Research Brooklyn in May 2023.

‘Generations#1’ refers to the reverberation of image from the sensual source through interplay between live video feedback and movement. In continuously transforming mundane magic, these two artists bring a special intimacy and camaraderie to the choreography of body, light and image.

Lindsay Packer works on generative relationships between luminous color and ephemeral form propel her site-responsive work in performance, installation, film and video, photography and streaming media. A 2022 LMCC Artist-in-Residence at The Arts Center at Governors Island, Packer’s video works were featured this spring at drj art projects (Berlin) and Lamont Gallery (Exeter, NH) and are part of Color Forms at Project: ARTspace (NY, NY) thruoughout the summer. In 2021, she performed light work live as part of the virtual relaunch of MoMA’s Modern Mondays series and again as part of the The Moving Company and Friends: Vernal Equinox, produced by Essex Flowers. Also in 2021, Packer performed her on-going analog/digital project Viewfinder with collaborator Lathan Hardy as part of Summer Showers at Essex Flowers and brought a solo iteration of Viewfinder to ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 12, an international conference focusing that year on John Cage’s legacy. Packer and Hardy performed new work in sound and light as part of the Fire Over Heaven series at Outpost Artist Resources in March 2022. She was a 2019 Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn, NY). Recent solo exhibitions include Phase Space at James Madison University’s Duke Hall Gallery (Harrisonburg, VA) and Motion at a Distance: Dusk to Dawn at MONO NO AWARE (Brooklyn, NY). Lindsay Packer