Gudrun Lock has installed work in foreclosed homes, storefronts, bars, a houseboat, and a soon-to-be demolished apartment building as well as in Union Square Park, the Atlantic Ocean, and a hole in her backyard. Her video pieces have been shown at the Montreal Underground Film Festival, on MNTV, and at the Tweed Museum of Art, as well as during the Feminist Art Conference in Toronto 2013. She is a 2016 recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, and was recently a resident at the Soap Factory's 3x5 series and the White Page Gallery, both in Minneapolis. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2007 and has taught in their Time and Interactivity department, as well as at Macalester College as an adjunct professor. She currently teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Looking to the Margins: A Mediatheque Playlist by Gudrun Lock
“While exploring the Walker’s Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection, I looked for a counter to the dominant narratives of our hysterical moment,” writes Gundrun Lock, who’s Mediatheque playlist looks to works by Paul Chan, Jem Cohen, and Peggy Awesh.