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Particular Motions & Traced Fissures
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Multi-media on-site project
Gainesville, FL, 2008
The project, Particular Motions & Traced Fissures, was a multi-media interactive installation and architectural intervention that involved partially sanding away one wall of a decayed building in a derelict neighborhood and re-inventing the narrow space between that wall and the next building. Dust particles from the erosion of the wall accumulated throughout the space, indexing the tracks of viewers. Sound and video also evinced the process. Debris and salvaged materials from the neighborhood were re-worked into ephemeral and interactive sculptural pieces, video installations, and drawings.
The exhibition took the form of a refused and neglected archive and a demolition site where literal fissures were traced through previously defined boundaries. The material detritus and the logic of decaying structures acted as analogues for mental and social experience, using refused materials and erosive processes to open a field of metaphors in opposition to the language of architecture, structure, systems, and permanence.