The Paradise Institute

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Exterior view of The Paradise Institute, 2001, Wood, theater seats, DVD, DVD player, digital projector, headphones, and mixed media, 120 x 449 x 201 in., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Museum purchase with funds provided by the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the FRIENDS of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the William A. Clark Fund, Carolyn Small Alper, and the Binn Family Foundation in loving memory of Penny Binn Binstock, 2003.03

A highlight of the Corcoran's collection of modern and contemporary art, The Paradise Institute (2001) by internationally renowned Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller is an extraordinary multimedia sound and video installation that explores the relationship between reality and fiction. The installation is essentially a theater in miniature that accommodates 16 people, and in which the audience becomes involved in the fictional narrative of the projected movie.