The Muriel Lake Incident, 1999.
Canadian artist Janet Cardiff is best known for her works in which participants don headphones for what are essentially self-guided tours (cued by the sounds and voices on the CD visitors listen to) of the specific places, often outdoors, for which the works were made. In them, present and past, reality and fiction, mingle, overlap, and sometimes conflict. For her first survey exhibition, the artist and P.S. 1 senior curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev present such pieces away from their original settings. But Cardiff also has more conventional indoor installations to show and a new site-specific work for the occasion.
