Two Installations at the
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
December 2009
Occupied Space
A defunct phone booth, a film made on the boarder between Juarez and El Paso, the Mexican/Texan border, found materials: bones, sand, carcasses.
Occupied Space 2
A corridor, under a stairwell, in the basement.
materials: sand, tumbleweed,
barbed wire,strip lights and tarpaulin.
An incarnation
of questions and ideas that arose on the trip:
migration, prohibition of movement, notions of the real or the authentic.
Tumble weeds, are not native species in the West, they were introduced by a large shipment of flax seed from the Ukraine The flax was not hardy enough to survive but the tumble weed thrived.
The installation had a performative element when I teamed up with the Electronic Arts Ensemble who make instruments called Chuppers. The EAE responded to my installation and together we crafted a live 2 channel video mix, one camera on the installation and one on the performance, mixed and projected on to the side wall.
see the video below of the performance
