Contours in the Crosshairs is an installation combining video projection, broken glass sculpture and still images. The video presents the slow motion passage of a mountain highway from the driver’s perspective. Layered over the highway clip is another that shows the gradual erasure of the contour lines of the Athabasca Glacier. The 20 min. looping video is projected onto the frosted surface of a suspended car windshield.

Nancy Nisbet is an interdisciplinary artist working in installation, photography, and performance. Having presented her works and lectures across North America and internationally, Nisbet focuses on provisional identities, faltering memories, and improvised narratives within the broader socio political landscape. With a background in Genetics, before completing her MFA from  the California Institute of the Arts under the mentorship of Catherine Opie, Nisbet will be teaching at ACAD as of the Fall of 2010.

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