Britt Wilder Moseley

Inward Panorama

Dimensions Variable

Vacuum Cleaner, Laundry Basket, Pizza Box, Mirror, Transducers, Wire, Projector, Fog Machine, Monitor, Brightsign Media Players

12 min. loop

2023

Inward Panorama is a multi-channel audio-visual installation that explores perception through an analysis of insomnia. The format was inspired by the the concept of the historic Panorama: an immersive 360-degree image/spectacle. However, in my construction I inverted the gaze toward the self, as a way of seeing passing thought patterns “all around.” Rather than portraying a place that exists, I depict the mental landscape as an audio/visual construction, representing 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 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.

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