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FREEZE, 2000
2 channel video / audio installation, 8 minutes (looped)
Freeze is a video and audio installation offering a meditation on loss, the cyclical nature of time, and the desire to hold onto beauty. This work is a two-channel video installation comprised of a central large-scale projection and two monitors. The projected image reveals a beautiful dying fish, spinning eerily, reflected in a mirror, creating the illusion of dancing twins. This central projection goes through a series of transformations, rising in visual and aural intensity, augmenting the sense of spiritual release. The two small monitors contain images of layered swirling snow, sailing ships slowly moving across the ocean, and a lonely road at dusk, all silently echoing the fish¹s journey into death.
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dream of automatic release, 2001-02
3 channel video / audio installation, 15 minutes (looped)
dream of automatic release was shot at an abandoned family home in Ohio. The family members had left, grown up, moved away, the last resident recently died. What remained was an empty house with only a few traces of domesticity: window curtains, crumbling wallpaper, badminton raquets, old tools in the basement, a tattered butterfly net; remnants conjuring distinct and haunting memories. Simple domestic activities are undertaken by a couple, each existing in his/her own world. Games are played, tasks undertaken, revealing hidden yearnings, miscommunications, and unsatisfied yearnings. The deep undercurrent of frustrations obscured by sunny lawns, backyard games and chores is examined along with a sense of mounting tension and the desire for release.
dream of automatic release is a three-channel video/audio installation composed of a projection and multiple monitors.
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motion on the sun, 2002
single-channel video, 6 minutes
In motion on the sun, formally dressed participants playing a game of croquet allude to the interaction of gods and planets. Their behavior appears completely random with little regard for the rules of the game, suggesting themes of chaos, aggression and pent up energy. Through their actions, we perceive a drifting through time and the mundanity of a passing day. The piece slowly escalates to a frenzy of agitated commotion, only to wind down at the end of the day, balls forgotten and tossed aside.
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stop motion, 2003
single-channel video, 7 minuyrd
stop motion combines Hamlet's first monologue with footage of New Jersey's Garden State Parkway, speeding past at 80mph. The incessant motion is punctuated by moments of hesitation, offering a brief respite before once again resuming speed with ever more force, careening out of control, taunting disaster. The specter of Hamlet (played by Wooster Group regular Scott Shepherd) exists in this blur of motion over trees, skies and guardrails, unable to escape the forward surge of time, speeding towards his fate, caught in the rush toward impending violence.
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