Orka portrays the wilderness of Iceland and first premiered at the 1997 Venice Biennale when Steina Vasulka was chosen as the country’s first female representative. A revolutionary in many ways, Steina spearheaded the first women’s video art festival in 1972, only a year after she and her husband Woody founded the Kitchen in New York, an experimental institution for video, performance, and cross-disciplinary art, which continues to shape the lives and careers of numerous artists to this day. Documenting the traces and movement of birds, insects, and the various paths of naturalistic life in her native country, Steina offers an alternative to a conventional way of experiencing nature, the view from the camera. Sometimes describing the work as a visual symphony and free-floating imagery, she refers to her background as a classically trained violinist. Nothing remains at a standstill, one thing leads to another. Water continuously flows uphill or to the sides, and gravity and time become as malleable as the image itself.