i went to this jewish cemetery this morning in Prague and saw this amazing memorial in a temple…with the names of people who died in the holocaust… written in ink on the walls…. it was really incredibly powerful and reminded me so much of your work
The heartbeat is the formative bass rhythm which shapes our instinctive ability to feel music and dance. The joyful bliss of play that we experience as children, is gradually unlearned and forgotten as we become adults. Rhythm and dance offers a passage through which we can return to utopia, a consciousness of unconsciousness and joyful community. Samples of female figures from 8 mm family footage shot in the 1960’s digitized to create a video poem. Sisters, cousins, aunts, mother and grandmother gazes and gestures interwoven in a pixel tapestry of memories of the womb time before noise erased our oneness with the vibration of life itself.
TOOLS / Ingredients:
Human heartbeat recorded in the womb. Chimes and a rainstick. 8 mm family footage. Final Cut Pro.
Technical Specs:
VIDEO LOOPS
Actual Pixels 960 X 540
PLACED center screen with no tool bars or timeline visible (preferably you only see the film loop with a black background)
NOISEWOMB is a net-based staging of the reappearance, on the scene of the absent sign, of the previously silent utopia.
