Owen McCarter
Owen McCarter (b. 1998.) is a documentary and performance based artist living and working in Western Massachusetts. His current project The Three Eyed Fish centers on the Housatonic River and pollution caused by the General Electric superfund site at the river’s source. Using reenactment, documentary, and constructed narrative imagery the work examines our cognition of place and identity through past, present, and anticipated future experiences. In this manner he explores the effects of intergenerational trauma through both body and landscape memory, questioning what it means to inherit toxicity. In the following year he hopes to experiment with the awarded film as a material object, drawing attention to the negative as a constantly degrading construction of memory. He also intends to work collaboratively with his community to contextualize their relationship to the space they inhabit and increase involvement with remediation of the river through photographic techniques, ecology and local history.
