Category: Artwork

2016 — installation/performance — a maya + rouvelle collaboration

Realized in a re-purposed bank in Detroit, Place and Borrow is an interactive performance work for actor and media. The piece was developed for G. Louise Cooper, who gave the performance and installed the work in the multidisciplinary art space Grand on River as part of MicroMacro Art Biome (catalogue pdf). The video was shot by Remi Slade-Caffarel.

The basic premise of the piece is that somehow, through the process of installing the exhibit, the formerly abandoned bank has woken up to find itself an art space. It channels its dual nature through a head teller/performer and attempts both to continue its business as a bank and performance venue. This is America, 2016.

The media includes bismuth, lead, paper, string, bio-plastic, a wireless, head-mounted camera, projector, and a remote control vehicle.

video of performance / photo documentation

A detailed description of the piece, script, and other relevant materials can be found here.

2016 – dimensions variable – digital print [tape, nails, dismantled ornament]

2016 – dimensions variable – digital print

2016 – video – a maya + rouvelle collaboration

composed from fragments of other maya + rouvelle pieces, documentation and experiments, derivando is an ongoing series of works in sound and image that are a confluence and slippage of times and processes.

these works are best experienced through headphones.

2015 – video for installation/performance projection

An ideal space on the frontier is a topology of events and media realized for Stazione di Topolò, July 2015. A maya + rouvelle collaboration with artist James Rouvelle. The work includes an installation/performance with mezzo-soprano Carlotta Buiatti, a musical composition, handmade musical instruments, materials found on site, drawings and video.

Inspired by the location and its history on the Italian and Slovenian border, Stazione di Topolò was an ideal space for us to continue to explore with sound, light and movement the qualities of suspension that take place on the frontier; where the essential in-betweenness of all things is evoked, with its ever present shifting perspectives, dualities and parallels.

This video was developed on site and includes footage captured in Topolò as well as unpublished material from earlier maya.rouvelle projects whose content foreshadowed this work. The visual echoes between the Topolò footage and the previous work footage form an isorhythm across time and space, another frontier. As a part of the installation/performance the video was projected onto drawings positioned over found objects.

The musical composition is a cross-synthesis of different musics from different times and media organized around the theme of the project.

 

 

These drawings belong to a series created for and included in the installation/performance. Their process was analogous to the process for creating the musical composition in that both explored the border as a site of hybridity and assemblage. The drawings are presented here as they were photographed in a neighboring site illuminated by the Friulian sun, thus extending the work into yet another neighboring frontier.

full project documentation:
installation/performance photo documentation
video documentation of the installation
video for installation/performance projection