RUTH K. BURKE
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    • Susurrus
    • In Heaven Love Comes First
    • Ruminant >
      • Keeping Everyone Comfortable, 2017
      • Forever Heifer, 2017
      • Trough, 2016
      • Closer to Closure, 2017
      • We are Flesh, Fat, and Blood, 2016
      • Bargaining Tool (2,000 lbs), 2016
    • Moving Image & Site-Specific >
      • This Land is Not My Land, 2021
      • Goldenrod, 2021
      • Gift, 2019
      • The Process of Coming and Going in this World, 2018
      • The Social Life of Meat, 2018
      • Quiet, 2018
      • Itchy in the Grass, 2018
      • Boustrophedon, 2017
      • Connected Kingdoms, 2017
      • Emblem of Rural Quiet, 2017
      • Aleph, 2017
      • Window Into, 2017
      • Countering the Bull, 2016
      • Gopi, 2015
    • Horses >
      • Polyrhythms (Fuerst Rendition), 2020-2022
      • Epona, 2018
      • Burgazada Ride, 2016
      • Herd II, 2016
      • Herd, 2015
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We are flesh, fat and blood from Ruth K. Burke on Vimeo.

We are Flesh, Fat, and Blood, 2017
Looping digital video, installed with wood frame.
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Three weeks after the Trough performance, Shyanne the Scottish Highland cow, escaped her pasture and was fatally hit by a drunk driver. Her human family invited me to tan and preserve Shyanne’s hide. We are Flesh, Fat, and Blood documents the difficult and grotesque process of fleshing--the removal of the fat and membrane from the inner layer of the epidermis. The lighting in the video, reminiscent of a dutch master still life painting, contrasts the uncomfortable women’s work. The video is run on a small screen to create with the viewer a sense of intimacy.

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  • Work
    • Susurrus
    • In Heaven Love Comes First
    • Ruminant >
      • Keeping Everyone Comfortable, 2017
      • Forever Heifer, 2017
      • Trough, 2016
      • Closer to Closure, 2017
      • We are Flesh, Fat, and Blood, 2016
      • Bargaining Tool (2,000 lbs), 2016
    • Moving Image & Site-Specific >
      • This Land is Not My Land, 2021
      • Goldenrod, 2021
      • Gift, 2019
      • The Process of Coming and Going in this World, 2018
      • The Social Life of Meat, 2018
      • Quiet, 2018
      • Itchy in the Grass, 2018
      • Boustrophedon, 2017
      • Connected Kingdoms, 2017
      • Emblem of Rural Quiet, 2017
      • Aleph, 2017
      • Window Into, 2017
      • Countering the Bull, 2016
      • Gopi, 2015
    • Horses >
      • Polyrhythms (Fuerst Rendition), 2020-2022
      • Epona, 2018
      • Burgazada Ride, 2016
      • Herd II, 2016
      • Herd, 2015
  • statement
  • about/cv
  • Contact
  • Black Lives Matter