leak
A rumination on transmutation, language, the experience of time, death and the joys of apartment living.
Installation with 12.5 gallons of water (equivalent to my weight), vinyl, sheetrock, camera, computer running max/msp/jitter, monitor and headphones.
The water collected in the vinyl sheet slowly slips through a tube and saturates the sheetrock. Drip patterns form underneath and are captured, processed and displayed on the monitor with sound generated by mapping pixel values onto recordings of breaths and other sounds.
The drips, here the expression of time, can be experienced both as a direct physical phenomenon and a mediated one. Both are happening live, in so-called real-time, yet interpret the environment in their own distinctive way. Our own senses and, the increasingly widespread, digital screen attest to how much our worlds are described by a collection of languages, including the conventions, both biological and cultural, of our perception. The irregular rhythm created by the drips also reflects the subjective perception of time’s constancy – sometimes seemingly hurried, other times molasses-like, time becomes malleable and almost physical.
Physical also as one’s body, which is in itself a parcel of time, running by the metronome of the breath, counting down to that last one, the final drip, all the while navigating the big and small questions of life: calling the landlord to fix the bathroom ceiling, pondering the aging of one’s body and how all the water in the world is somehow connected.
The project leak is a development of themes and issues that have appeared, in various forms, in many previous pieces. The installation spaced (please see dvd 2 and accompanying sheet) is another attempt at jamming expected interpretations and conventions, to make expressive use of quasi-scientific methods. It shares with leak a playful approach to technology that lavishes high-resolution on some definitely low-tech elements. Both pieces reflect an interest in the behavior of humble materials in odd situations and exploit the margins of perception and the conventions of language. While spaced dealt with a immediate reaction to a space and situation, leak delves into territory, at once more personal and more universal.
leak
A rumination on transmutation, language, the experience of time, death and the joys of apartment living.
Installation with 12.5 gallons of water (equivalent to my weight), vinyl, sheetrock, camera, computer running max/msp/jitter, monitor and headphones.
The water collected in the vinyl sheet slowly slips through a tube and saturates the sheetrock. Drip patterns form underneath and are captured, processed and displayed on the monitor with sound generated by mapping pixel values onto recordings of breaths and other sounds.
The drips, here the expression of time, can be experienced both as a direct physical phenomenon and a mediated one. Both are happening live, in so-called real-time, yet interpret the environment in their own distinctive way. Our own senses and, the increasingly widespread, digital screen attest to how much our worlds are described by a collection of languages, including the conventions, both biological and cultural, of our perception. The irregular rhythm created by the drips also reflects the subjective perception of time’s constancy – sometimes seemingly hurried, other times molasses-like, time becomes malleable and almost physical.
Physical also as one’s body, which is in itself a parcel of time, running by the metronome of the breath, counting down to that last one, the final drip, all the while navigating the big and small questions of life: calling the landlord to fix the bathroom ceiling, pondering the aging of one’s body and how all the water in the world is somehow connected.
The project leak is a development of themes and issues that have appeared, in various forms, in many previous pieces. The installation spaced (please see dvd 2 and accompanying sheet) is another attempt at jamming expected interpretations and conventions, to make expressive use of quasi-scientific methods. It shares with leak a playful approach to technology that lavishes high-resolution on some definitely low-tech elements. Both pieces reflect an interest in the behavior of humble materials in odd situations and exploit the margins of perception and the conventions of language. While spaced dealt with a immediate reaction to a space and situation, leak delves into territory, at once more personal and more universal.