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untitled (living in a motel room
in Stevenson Ranch)
binaural recordings, sound montage
This is an aural non-narrative, based on diaristic recordings made around the motel I used to live in, by the Interstate 5 Freeway in Stevenson Ranch.
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untitled (truncate)
digital zoom, binaural recording
This piece was installed in a room in the basement at the California Institute of the Arts, in a loop. The installation used spacial elements, rear projection, darkness and an immersive sound system to create intensity and a sense of duration. It is part of the free way series.
It’s made up of three parts, which correspond to three shots. As shots, they follow a logic of suspense, as parts they follow a logic of suspicion. We move towards identifying the object of our experience, only to find it lacks specificity and bears a message.
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The mobility of the symmetric pieces allowed for people to selectively remove them, at once dismembering any kind of reification the image might have had, while allowing new, specific interpretations to occur according to localization on campus and the corresponding signs, removed and remaining: sleeve, hand, Starbucks coffee cup, head.
