Accelerated Decline, 2017
Duration: 191 minutes (or 3.18 hours)
Live video feed: Wave-height models for Lake Superior viewed behind glass tube/water/ink
Live sound performance/video-feed streamed and projected to Practice Gallery (Philadelphia, PA) for show The Turbid Tides
Accelerated Decline is a contemplation on how events of the past accumulate to create the future, based on Lake Superior has a retention-time of 191 years based on its volume, meaning it takes that long for water to completely circulate through the lake before exiting through the Great Lakes system specifically on water quality within Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. The performance was live-streamed from my studio in Minneapolis to Practice Gallery in Philadelphia, PA where it was projected into the space and larger cumulative installation, "The Turbid Tides" (03/03/2017). Lake Superior has a retention-time of 191 years based on its volume, meaning it takes that long for water to completely circulate through the lake before exiting through the Great Lakes system. The performance's length was condensed to 191 minutes to reflect this, and to highlight that any alterations to the water-chemistry will stay this long before passing on. The sound is being played and manipulated in real-time along with the act of dropping ink into the water over the course of the performance, eventually obscuring the lake-model in murky dark. The viewer is looking through this water to the looped projections for the wave-models of Lake Superior that week (care of NOAA).
Our experience with water directly affects our lives, but as a conceptual process, is detached from what we can see, observable only through longer-viewed data. This detachment is characterized in this piece through its creation in one space and the act of letting it go to be interrupted and manipulated in another space entirely. Will the changes in the piece still be felt by the time it is viewed in another place? What is lost on its way? Its resonance, created here in Minnesota, eventually arrived east, tracing the idea of the lake becoming the Atlantic (an action here being felt over there).
Duration: 191 minutes (or 3.18 hours)
Live video feed: Wave-height models for Lake Superior viewed behind glass tube/water/ink
Live sound performance/video-feed streamed and projected to Practice Gallery (Philadelphia, PA) for show The Turbid Tides
Accelerated Decline is a contemplation on how events of the past accumulate to create the future, based on Lake Superior has a retention-time of 191 years based on its volume, meaning it takes that long for water to completely circulate through the lake before exiting through the Great Lakes system specifically on water quality within Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. The performance was live-streamed from my studio in Minneapolis to Practice Gallery in Philadelphia, PA where it was projected into the space and larger cumulative installation, "The Turbid Tides" (03/03/2017). Lake Superior has a retention-time of 191 years based on its volume, meaning it takes that long for water to completely circulate through the lake before exiting through the Great Lakes system. The performance's length was condensed to 191 minutes to reflect this, and to highlight that any alterations to the water-chemistry will stay this long before passing on. The sound is being played and manipulated in real-time along with the act of dropping ink into the water over the course of the performance, eventually obscuring the lake-model in murky dark. The viewer is looking through this water to the looped projections for the wave-models of Lake Superior that week (care of NOAA).
Our experience with water directly affects our lives, but as a conceptual process, is detached from what we can see, observable only through longer-viewed data. This detachment is characterized in this piece through its creation in one space and the act of letting it go to be interrupted and manipulated in another space entirely. Will the changes in the piece still be felt by the time it is viewed in another place? What is lost on its way? Its resonance, created here in Minnesota, eventually arrived east, tracing the idea of the lake becoming the Atlantic (an action here being felt over there).