Feverous Transgressions
Feverous Transgressions
Interactive video + sound installation
in collaboration with Clint Sleeper, and Mark Baker.
InLight Richmond 2017, hosted by1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
“Feverous Transgressions” alludes to a history of the moving image, particularly circular pre-film devices like the zoetrope. The audio collage – consisting of carnival stems, digital synthesizers, and found sounds – swells correspondingly, moving across the speakers as viewers gather. Video clips race around the curved screen, an accelerated animation, until the viewers are bathed in flashes of light. The meaning of the image, of the waltz, of the machine, is lost; instead, it means everything that we are standing together in front of it.
Organized by 1708 Gallery, InLight Richmond is a public one-night exhibition of light-based art and performances. The event offers the community an opportunity to engage with contemporary art outside the gallery walls and to experience the city in new and unexpected ways.
Our entry was selected by Nat Trotman, the Curator of Performance and Media at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Trotman oversees the museum’s collection and presentation of time-based artworks, including performance, video, film, sound, and other media.
Photo credits:
Clint Sleeper
James H. Wallace, Richmond Times Dispatch