Britt Wilder Moseley

Eclipse

15 min.

Collaborative Audio/Visual Performance
Shedshows, Austin, TX.

Score and Co-Conception by Grayson Fiske
Words by Alicia Harmon and Miles Mattis-Uzzo
Live Drawing by Selina Wagner
Projection Movement by Daniel Molina
Moon Movement by Katherine Vaughn Video

Video Documentation by Tova Katzman
Photographic Documentation by Phoebe Shuman-Goodier

2024

In April 2024, a day before the total solar eclipse crossed over Texas, I co-created Eclipse, a multi-sensory collaborative performance uniting video, poetry, sound, drawing, and movement. The event took place at Shedshows, an artist-run space in Austin, and conceived as an experiment in collective authorship and an exploration of systems of perception.

The performance orbited around two illuminated discs, one solar and one lunar. The “Sun,” mounted on the roof, displayed a live video feed of a hand drawing over the face of a performer. The “Moon,” carried on a long pole, projected a rotating 3D sphere. This disc was puppeteered in real time and orbited around the audience in a panoramic fashion, to “eclipse” the Sun. Sonically, a vibraphone score composed of systematic rhythmic patterns intertwined with a poetry reading that evoked earthly scenes of queer love.

As a precursor to the actual eclipse, these elements converged, aligned, and dissolved, moments of perceptual transformation. Like much of my practice, it approaches performance as a temporary system: a live, distributed organism that reveals how shared attention gives form to experience.

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