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DreamTime
(excerpts from) 5:12 2015 DreamTime is a meditation on time, voice and body, and the cyclical, repetitive nature of being. The audio is composed solely of my voice, through vocal percussion and spoken text, with the addition of a single detuned clock bell. Video images are created from freeze frames by Eadweard Muybridge, mirroring the "phasing" cycles in the audio, a composition technique whereby the same part, a repetitive auditory beat, is played in two simultaneous iterations in steady but not identical tempi (speeds). The result is that the vocal beats gradually shift and move out of unison, creating first an echo, then a doubling, then a more complex ringing, eventually coming back to unison – much as the nature of being moves through cycles, marking time, a continuum in and out of sync, ultimately finding rhythmic balance within itself. |
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re/living • home/land
(excerpts from) 20:15 2011 re/living • home/land is a reflection on culture, identity, and place, on image and language, and the less apparent spaces in between. Weaving personal narrative with archival events, the project seeks to poetically address the resonance of home with the dissonance of what that terrain of reality entails. |
                  18 still frames from re/living • home/land
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Do Trees Have Nationality?
6:14 2012 |
This video documents Laurie Polster's public art project, "The Olive Oil Tasting / Gift Exchange Picnic," presented on June 3, 2012, on Jesse Square in San Francisco, CA. The project raises questions about environmental responsibility in the context of borders, conflict and nationalism, highlighting the destruction of olive trees in Palestine and the impact this has on ecological and social sustainability. Project website: DoTreesHaveNationality.org |