2014, Site-Specific Installation, Chance Collaboration (paper, masking tape, cheesecloth, rope, chalk, linen), {Re}Happening, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
Collaboration Members: Mark Bloch, Jonathan C. Creasy, Danielle C. Wyckoff, Astrid Kaemmerling.
Bridging shared interests in language, writing, sound, composition, and narration, the installation & accompanying performance investigated the space between academic and artistic research. Tracing thoughts in imagined spaces, was an artists' attempt to document collaborative research processes by transforming findings into a site-specific, temporal-spatial experience.
Thought to speech to text to action, ideas spilled out upon surfaces, extended conversation, writing about speaking, recording language, stopping time, finding sound, taping voices, between art and research, research and art; technically speaking, poetically writing, breaking ground; reflecting, collecting, creating, materials exchanging;
stimulation, simulation, extending experience, wished-for- collaborations, unpredictable structures, systems without rules, spirit appreciated, exile, nostalgia, history, tradition, fascination, education, experimentation, emotion, united, ratio; art-based research behavior;
participation, pinning papers to snakes, inheriting spaces, sonic waves of interference, thought exchange, performative action, exploration, sound cognition, artistic scholarship;
writers, musicians; seeking art adventure; space reshaped, audio-visual, propulsive sonic movement, continuation, leaving traces.
The process is the product, which is coming together.