Spectre Song
Spectre Song
light and sound installation
IMPACT Performance Festival 2022, SAIC Galleries
March 5-6, 2022
Spectre Song is an audiovisual installation and performance animating the absent body, processes of grief, and transformation of self in response to trauma. It is a collective experience meant to highlight everyday moments of beauty; existence is fragile, precious and momentary.
Within the installation exists dichotomies of life and death through living and wilting sunflowers. The light is a choreography projected onto these flowers, creating ghosts (shadows) in real-time. Viewers listen to my story together on wireless headphones which correlates with the light’s dance. The story is in the format of an essay, interweaving literary quotes with very personal anecdotes of grief.
materials: prepared turntable, voice, silent disco headphones, LED par lights, programmed electronics, sunflowers, vases.
