Diana Thater.

DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Diana Thater has spent her career harking the call of the wild, videotaping exotic animals like wolves, zebras, and Andalusian stallions. This isn't Discovery Channel fare, though. Thater's colorful, complex video installations investigate nature as a fluid concept, created by us and for us as a construct against which to locate our own identities. At Dia, monitors on the floor and projections on the walls and ceiling will fill the cavernous third floor in this, the artist's largest American commission to date. Her subject is the honeybee and its systems of communicating and mapping space--an apiarian analogue, perhaps, for the spirit of the hive as evidenced in our own attempts to map and navigate our wired universe. Jan. 24-Jan. 2002.