SELECTED AUDIO/VISUAL
SCULPTURE SPACE RESIDENT ARTISTS 2021/22
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STEPHANIE WILLIAMS • Washington DC
About “ Lingering Survival of the Unfit”
The first 30 seconds of black video include excerpts from a series of interviews with Williams’ mother about the Greater United States (the US mainland and the precarious nature that it held with its territories). The animation focuses the the Philippines’ absence from American history textbooks, presenting the perception of nationhood formed from unlearned and fragmented contexts. The protagonist is a balut (a Filipino fertilized and fermented duck egg). Americans eat duck, Americans eat duck eggs, but the thing in-between makes it distasteful.
NOA HEYNE • Germany
About “Pos”
Posthumous Adaptations is an interactive installation, of which two site-specific versions were created. This video shows the first version, installed in the Le Mondo art space in Baltimore. Activating the concrete sculpture with hydraulics references water as the mobilizer of rocks, people, and land; as a force of life as well as destruction. The act of pumping water becomes an attempt to return life to a fossil or movement to a dead structure; a collective effort or perhaps a hopeless action in the face of disaster. The sculpture is accompanied by an animation video, Entropia, which shows what might be the ruins of a war stricken city, where concrete creatures are the only life form that could survive in the rubble we left behind.
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FIRAT ERDIM • Iowa
About “Kite Choir”
The Kite Choir is an ensemble of custom-made kites and sound instruments that builds upon traditions of singing kites. The sound instruments in these existing traditions are carried aloft by the kites they are attached to, as the voice-box of an assemblage brought to life by the wind. The Kite Choir instead utilizes the reel and entire tow-line of the kite as the sites of instrumentation, to promote a collaborative chain of agency between atmosphere and pilot/performer. It functions as a regime of perception, an aesthetic practice of attunement with the atmosphere.