Collaborative project with Tor Jakubcin exploring the implications of technological advancements on written history, storytelling, and our memories. Installation ran during the Spring of 2014 in the B Gallery of Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.
Viewers were invited in multiple areas to write on the walls in charcoal inscriptions of memories and experiences they were having.
Composed of over 11 miles of used magnetic VHS tape, LED lights, and charcoal in a 25' x 35' gallery space divided into two parts.
Press. Tor Jakubcin (site broken).
Entrance to gallery
STOP (READ): Opening remarks
Looking from the first room back at the entrance
PAUSE (LISTEN): Opening to the second room
PLAY (REMEMBER): Prompting to move through the second space
PLAY (REMEMBER)
Person emerges
Entering
Moving through to RECORD
RECORD (WRITE): Use charcoal to write an inscription on the wall with charcoal
RECORD (WRITE)
Reentering
Reemerging
Person emerges
PAUSE (LISTEN) with people entering/exiting
Exhibit comments were written with charcoal on a wall as well
Exhibit comments
Video by Tor Jakubcin
Below are installation shots from this exhibition.
Looking from entry: first room arrangement had piles of refuse materials that from what we used
Installation shot: step 1 of hanging VHS tape
Installation shot: step 2 problem-solving lighting
Completing the second room
Artists: Tor Jakubcin (right), myself (left)
Promo image
