Word: merriman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Victoria L. Merriman '98, a visual and environmental studies (VES) concentrator in Dunster House, finds herself in a rare predicament: She has completed her thesis, a video performance entitled "Burial," but may not be able to perform...
...Merriman's project--which she described as an "exploration of afterlife and the process of mourning"--requires the excavation of a large hole. It was originally intended to take place in either the Radcliffe or Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) Quad on May 2 during the Art First Festival...
...From the outset, they've resisted my efforts without good reason," said Merriman, asserting that the masters of Lowell, Winthrop, Eliot, Kirkland, Cabot, Pforzheimer and Currier Houses have taken an irrational "not-in-my-backyard approach...
This leaves Merriman--who over the past 12 months has enlisted the services of 50 people, including 12 undergraduates, and invested $5,000 in grant money as well as her own funds--without a place to perform a project which is supposed to be the culmination of her four years at Harvard...
...hoping to return to Harvard to TF in the fall in a video/performance art class. Beyond that, Merriman wonders about the process by which one becomes recognized as a performance artist. She might consider doing more traditional films, but feels the need to always experiment with form. "I'd want to make something more like Godard than like George Lucas. I mean, I wouldn't even want to make something like Godard, except that I'd want to have that same experimental spirit...