VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET

5 videos, 4 experiment booths, props, objects & drawings.

Based on her memory of a 1950's Jerry Lewis film seen as a child, Starr attempts to recreate the entire film from memory. In her version, sitting behind a desk and following her own handwritten script, Starr is 'Kreton', the alien who can mind read, become invisible and communicate with animals. In a series of 'experiments' she attempts to gain Kreton's powers with varying degress of success.

Dealing with the multiplicity of remembered 'truths' and the re-construction of reality, the work continues to explore ideas around authenticity and artifice as seen in Getting to Know You (1993) and The Nine Collections of the Seventh Museum (1994) .

Exhibition history for Visit to a Small Planet:

Visit to a Small Planet, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland, 1995

The British Art Show 4, UK touring, 1995

7th Kwangiu Biennale, Kwangiu, Korea, 1996

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA , 1997