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. In LEAVING LANDSCAPE, 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 film is a pondering on biological and metaphysical reproduction, centering sexuality and bodily autonomy within a context of vanishing rights in the United States. What is a queer reality? What does non-rational knowledge production feel like? Archival and captured imagery are manipulated and ‘retold.’ This place is not as it seems: the landscape recedes and a world of undulating shapes emerges.
