Video Installation New Wright Gallery 2018
Tempus Fugit is an audio-visual installation dealing with the collective, dissociative relationship we have with time. It is an exploration of the intangible world of time-space we live in; one we cannot touch or see yet defines every aspect of our existence as human beings. This piece does not attempt to encompass all time, but instead, focuses on time that is lost in longing, transformation, and dissociation. I use the entanglement of time as a material through visual layering of various stages of our ephemeral lives
The work explores three various stages of a person’s life adolescence, adulthood, and late adulthood using video to collapse these different stages into a singular moment. The video is then projected onto a structure made with transparent fabric. This fabric intentionally allows the light of the projection to travel beyond the structure in order to create the visual phenomenon of time having multiple dimensions, or multiple lives. The passage of light beyond the materiality of the fabric introduces a non-material realm of reality in which light and time exist.
The process for making this piece was one of letting go, unfolding and letting time reveal itself. The unraveling of the individualized experience emerged through the collective experience of time, weaving together different lives of the same story. I set up loose parameters, creating a dialogue about our relationship to age and how our association to words and gestures shift through time. I asked the adolescent, the new age adult and the eldest a series of words and asked for short responses as well as a gestural movement based on the emotion the word evoked. The responses arranged themselves into unexpected paintings and poems that were than projected onto the three structures. Through the act of letting go an emergence of the collective experience of time unfolded, demonstrating that regardless of generational differences, a similar experience of time is woven into all of our stories.