Hilary Harp
Trained in sculpture at Parsons School of Design, Tyler School of Art, and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Hilary Harp creates sculptures, installations and media projects that explore new hybrid forms, and challenge categories, particularly categories of high and low, male and female, technology and craft. Since 2003, she has collaborated with Suzie Silver on a range of projects. Their videos have been screened at more than 100 festivals on four continents and are distributed by the Video Data Bank. Harp’s awards include a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Heinz Creative Heights Grant, and an Arizona Commission on the Arts Project Grant. Collaborations between Harp and Barry Moon integrate interactivity and data-visualization in sound-sculptures. Swing, commissioned by Scottsdale Public Art for the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall, allowed viewers to interact with pendulums to control motors and sound. Thermal Image, funded by a Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, expresses twitter data in physical and sonic forms. Her installation Carrier Signal was on view at New Adventures in Sound Art in Toronto, CA in May 2014. Her ongoing project with Suzie Silver, “Fairy Fantastic!” a web-based queer fairy and folk tale video series for gender non-conforming kids of all ages, has recently screened at festivals in Belarus, Portugal, Romania and Australia.
Area of study
Coming in 2025: Better Out Than In
The third in our trilogy of experimental queer folk tales, Better Out Than In is almost here!
Still from "Stinkhorn"
Hilary Harp + Suzie Silver 2019, 12:40, color, stereo | Set in a campy western mining town, Stinkhorn tells the tale of a lady blacksmith named Dusty and her naughty trickster paramour, Blaze.
Still from "The Sausage"
The Sausage (excerpt) Hilary Harp + Suzie Silver 2015, 9:00, color, stereo | Based on a Swedish folk tale, The Sausage tells the humorous story of two sisters, three wishes, and a calamitous obsession with a sausage.