Britt Wilder Moseley





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Buena Vista: The Audio/Visual Experience

Performance: 45-50 min.

Mixed Media Performance

Created with support from the St. Ann’s Warehouse, City Arts Corps. NY. , Wavefarm NY., and the Henson Foundation NY.

Audio score composed and performed live by Sean Petell

2017-2021
Buena Vista is a live video-puppetry performance of backgrounds and landscapes as systems of transformation. The show was developed over the course of four years and was shown in venues ranging from theaters to rented storefronts. In performance, Buena Vista merges handmade puppetry, projection, and sound into a meditative spectacle about creation, decay, and perception.

The narrative of this experimental cinematic performance is a journey through time and space: zooming into a wall vent to discover a solar system, and within that, the creation of civilization. With no discernible figures, the performance is preoccupied with landscape and planetary creation. Actions that occur over cosmic and geologic time. These vistas are constructed onstage from mundane everyday materials: mountain ranges of ceramic clay, orbiting planets of rubber balls, clouds of wood glue, and pepto-bismol volcanoes. 

 

This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant partnership of the New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program and Wave Farm, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Henson Foundation, and a City Arts Corps Grant.


Buena Vista: Part 1

15 min.

Mixed Media Performance

Created in the Puppet Lab program at the St. Ann’s Warehouse
Presented at the St. Ann’s Warehouse in Labapallooza 2018

Audio score composed and performed live by Sean Petell

Documentation by Teddy Wolff

2017-2018
Buena Vista was developed in a year long puppetry workshop program at the St. Ann’s Warehouse. It was a performative extension of the Constructed Landscapes, a live video performance of puppeteered backgrounds and landscapes. To house the landscapes, I build objects I called “Bucket Theaters” inspired by the interiors of sink traps, devices that collect debris and keep it from entering the sewer drain.

The narrative of this experimental performance is a journey through time and space: zooming into a wall vent to discover a a planet, and within that, an illuminating light bulb. Using only domestic materials, Buena Vista transforms the overlooked infrastructure of home into a poetic system of perception and wonder.





Buena Vista: Part 2

15 min.

Mixed Media Performance

Created with support from Concrete Temple Theater, Dixon Place, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and the Henson Foundation NY.

Presented in Concrete Boom Vol. 2 at Dixon Place, New York, NY.

Audio score composed and performed live by Sean Petell

Documentation by Evan Seplow

2019Buena Vista Part 2 was commissioned by Concrete Temple theater for their yearly Concrete Boom Vol. 2 show at Dixon Place, NYC. It was an expansion of the original Buena Vista show, focusing on the liquid material dynamics. This iteration expanded the vision of the world envisioned in Buena Vista Part 1 by depicting it’s creation in a primordial soup. This iteration extends to my broader practice of revealing how matter, perception, and attention intertwine in systems that are both microscopic and cosmic.



Buena Vista: The Audio Visual Experience

45-50 min.

Mixed Media Performance

Created with support from the St. Ann’s Warehouse, City Arts Corps. NY. , Wavefarm NY., and the Henson Foundation NY.
Presented at the Folly Tree Arboretum

Audio score composed and performed live by Sean Petell

Photographic Documentation by Philip Lehans

2021
In this feature-length iteration, Buena Vista unfolds as a live video-puppetry performance where domestic materials become the stage for planetary creation and the birth of civilization. Using homemade fish tanks, miniature motors, green screens, and video synthesizers, I construct a cosmos from the overlooked and the everyday. The narrative is a journey through time and space, from a wall vent in an empty airport to the birth of civilization, unfolding over cosmic and geologic time scales. Mountains of decaying clay, orbiting rubber planets, wood glue clouds, and Pepto-Bismol volcanoes merge into a tactile meditation on matter, labor, and imagination.






Buena Vista: The Audio Visual Environment

Installation: 26 x 16 x 10 ft.
Performance: 45-50 min.

Mixed Media Performance and Installation

Created with support from the St. Ann’s Warehouse, City Arts Corps. NY., Wavefarm NY., and the Henson Foundation NY.

Presented as a site-specific installation in the 50th st. Columbus Circle Subway Mall, New York, NY. 

Audio score composed and performed live by Sean Petell

Documentation by Kyna Marie

2021

Buena Vista: The Audio Visual Environment was an immersive, multimedia public art installation created onsite within a storefront retail space at the Columbus Circle 59th St. Subway Station in New York, NY. This month-long project transformed a commuter thoroughfare into a laboratory for video-based worldbuilding. The installation and performance space operated for one month and was funded by a grant via the City Arts Corps, NY.  

The video projections in the installation were sourced from video cameras fixed upon homemade plexiglas dioramas. This signal was altered with analog video filters and image generators, using the video itself as a sculptural medium. Free weekly performances were held on Sunday evenings for the commuting public. The work continued my interest in expanded cinema, perceptual play, and the infrastructures (public and homemade) that shape collective attention.

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