Since 1985, teaches classes in Non-Static Forms, which includes Video, Performance, and Installation. Offers graduate seminars on changing topics in contemporary critical theory and orchestrates interdisciplinary critiques. Committed to the integration of theory and practice, studio classes include required readings and seminars have a production component. Works to make the classroom an active and collaborative learning environment where diverse cultural contexts are considered.

In her artwork, Clark uses video and performance as well as sculptural components to construct topical installations. Her work is large scale and site specific and often incorporates the participation of community members. Project sites have included New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Madison.

Clark grew up in New York City and received degrees from Hampshire College, the University of New Mexico and Rutgers University. Her work has been generously supported by the McKnight Foundation through Intermedia Arts, Jerome Foundation and the National Endowment for the arts through Film in the Cities, Arts Midwest, Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, Art Matters, Inc., Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison CitiArts, and the University of Wisconsin.

Education

1983 MFA Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1981 MA University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1976 BA Hampshire College, Amherst, NJ

Significant Achievements

1997 The Everyday Life of Objects, installation, Madison Enterprise Center, Madison, WI

1995 Between Our Bodies and the World, installation, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN

1990 Approach/Avoidance, installation and performance, Madison Art Center and Isthmus Playhouse, Madison, WI

1989 Five of Swords, performance, Walker Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee; Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago; and Cleveland Public Theater Performance Art Festival, Cleveland

1987 Accept the Next Job Offer You Get, performance, Franklin Furnace, New York and Randoph Street Gallery, Chicago

Current Work

Since the 1994 faculty show, I have completed two video tapes. Un/Necessary Percent was the culmination of ten years of work on chronic employment in the postindustrial rust belt. While visually exploring the aesthetics of decay, the tape uses fragments of interviews with the long-term unemployed to suggest the brutal impact of an economic system founded on the notion that a certain percentage of workers must be unemployed.

Collective Dilemma, produced with Rosemary Bodolay, is about the pleasure and the struggle of making art with a group. The tape is based on interviews with members of four arts collectives and on the work they produce.

Both of these tapes are included in the show, along with documentation from The Everday Life of Objects, a site-specific installation that offered spectators an opportunity to move through a matrix of familiar objects, some precious, some trivial, and to reflect on the possessions in their own lives.

I am currently involved with two major creative projects. I will be contributing to a rumination on the persistence of material culture in the electronic age. I will also edit Yahrzeit, a sixty-minute video tape that will address the ascendancy of first-person testimony as a stylistically prominent form in video art by offering an "authentic" testimony regarding recent deaths among my family and friends and simultaneously critiquing the premises of personal truth narration through a continuous theoretical text.