LEAVING LANDSCAPE

multi-channel installation and performance | work-in-progress

collaboration with Milton Guillén


SYNOPSIS: The landscape recollects for us, turning us into broader versions of ourselves with the memories of those who came before. LEAVING LANDSCAPE is a pondering on biological and metaphysical reproduction in which the stories of four generations of women intermingle in a whisper. Allegories about intimacy from Schopenhauer and Plato are feminized, repurposed, and visualized: a porcupine’s bones laid out, made-up organisms created and divided. The project layers song, story, archival imagery, and projected animated abstractions created using generative adversarial networks. This place is not as it seems: the landscape recedes and a world of undulating shapes emerges.