Performance Practice
Pictured above are images and video from Ambient Mass, a concert series at Mass Gallery in Austin, TX. These collaborations function as small-scale acts of collective resistance against the increasing unreality of digital image production in the age of AI. Through live-feed video technology, I deconstruct the apparatus of image generation using the tools of the trade—broadcast switchers, camcorders, video synthesizers, and digital projectors. By repurposing these devices, Liquid Light becomes a shared inquiry into how attention can be grounded in the present moment, rather than in a rendered simulation.
This practice is highly influenced by early encounters with the sublime, the aesthetic quality of unknowability in vastness. The experience of growing up in the Rocky Mountains and seeing the Milky Way re-occurs in my work again and again, as I attempt to recreate for myself, and my audiences, that sense of awe I felt as a child; looking out into space, and finding comfort in its blank black vacuum. Through my analysis with camcorder technology, I discover this same beauty inhabiting the small details in my daily life.
This ongoing practice follows the lineage of expanded cinema—from the Joshua Light Show to László Moholy-Nagy’s Bauhaus experiments and Thomas Wilfred’s Lumia instruments. My approach is an embodied art-historical method that revives analog image-making techniques as a means to study systems of attention and collective perception.
Performed at Ivester Contemporary, Austin, TX.
August 2025
Collaboration with David Slowing
Austin Chronicle Recommended Event, August 29 Edition
A gathering devoted to experimental sound, art, collective experience, and deep listening
Performed at MAINTENANT, Marfa, TX.
September 2025
Britt Moseley + Virginia L. Montgomery
Visual
Theo Krantz
Audio