two works by Hank Linhart
Between the Banks – documentation of an illegal installation at Chase Manhattan Plaza, May 1, 1980 which is set to the Sound of One String by Arnold Dreyblatt. The piece recently screened as part of an evening of films about Occupy Wall Street.
The second piece will be two excerpts from ‘ Blissville’ ( work in progress) about a forgotten community in Queens NY and the search for the traces of a nearby gypsy community.
Hank Linhart lives and works in Brooklyn. He recently screened ‘Between the Banks’ at Union Docs in Williamsburg and is currently exhibiting works at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.
Some of his video work can be seen as part of ETC: Experimental Television Center 1969-2009, a 5-DVD Anthology distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. He is a recipient of a New York State Council of the Arts Individual Artist Grant and a New York Foundation of the Arts Artist Fellowship.