The Martian

Red Stick Festival
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2016

Collaboration with Jesse Allison

In conversation with James Baldwin's question “how much time?” I am exploring my own questions around what I perceive to be a culture of disembodiment. This piece combines image and text, actual and digital landscapes to challenge time, space as it relates to emotional engagement, personal and collective narrative/authorship.

Several iPads are on stands of differing heights placed in a dark projection/gallery space. The glowing iPads appear to float as their black mounts disappear in the darkness of the space. On these devices play my out-of-sync, DIY versions of Ridley Scott’s 2015 feature film The Martian. On the walls of the space are projected live processed and captured sounds, videos and time code.