Kari Orvik

Photographer and Educator

Exercises for moving in between

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Biography: Kari Orvik is a San Francisco-based photographer and educator. Using film, the wet plate collodion process, and found materials, her work looks at the resilience and fragility of our changing urban and natural environments, exploring what we hold... MORE

Rope study (8 original tintypes)

Resting pose Headlands gym, silver gelatin print

Development of the character - Headlands Gym (3 original tintypes)

Character studies

Setting up the rope - Headlands...l-ups (modified), Headlands gym

Setting up the rope - Headlands gymPull-ups (modified), Headlands gym

Pull-ups (modified), Headlands gym, c-print

Initial ropewalk outside of Kragerø, Norway

Video still from Headlands safety barriers

Birch study - Alaska (video still)

Tightrope video projected on Salesforce Tower Top, SF, March 2022

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Exercises for moving in between

Copyright Kari Orvik 2024

Updated Jun 2020

Topics Black and White, Conceptual, Fine Art, Photography, Portraiture

'Exercises for Moving in Between' began as a personal, site-specific tightrope-walking performance near my family's home in Norway. It continued at the Headlands Center for the Arts where I was a graduate fellow, and later my hometown of Fairbanks, Alaska, combining the practice of rope-walking, repetition and other physical engagements with the medium of tintypes, video and film. For print inquiries and more information about the book from this project, email kariorvik@gmail.com.