Dimensions Variable
Vacuum Cleaner, Laundry Basket, Pizza Box, Mirror, Transducers, Wire, Projector, Fog Machine, Monitor, Brightsign Media Players
12 min. loop
2023
I made this audio-visual installation to explore idiosyncratic thought processes of those forgotten moments in daily life, like trying to fall asleep at four A.M. The format was inspired by the the concept of the Panorama: an immersive 360-degree image/spectacle. However, in my construction I inverted the gaze toward the self, as a way of seeing my thoughts “all around.” Rather than portraying a place that exists, I depict my mental landscape as an audio/visual construction, representing my thoughts as sculptural characters.
These characters took the form of everyday items: a mirror, a vacuum cleaner, a pizza box, and a laundry bin. Using transducers and multi-channel audio playback, I put my voice into each thing. Elements of the self are represented by these objects in audio dialogue with each other. Connected by lines of audio and power cables, they create a network of thought.
In the audio score, the objects reenact my internal dialogues. The piece has no beginning or end, and the audio loops continuously give the sensation of an insomniac. The script for the work was inspired by the mid-century absurdist play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett , relating the dialogue between Vladimir and Estragon to the experience of lying awake at night.