Every Body is Everywhere and Nowhere

Multi-channel video installation with live transmission performance and surround sound at The Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2006

For the duration of this project, I performed a daily drawing outlining my physical borders in my LA studio which was simultaneously transmitted in real-time into The Morris Gallery in Philadelphia. The drawing from each previous day was first erased and a new set of lines were layered over the residue of earlier drawings. A series of sixty drawings were built up over the two-month exhibition on a single sheet of paper.

A second video showed a collage of imprints left behind by family and friends and an animated drawing of an outlined body moving through space comprised the third screen. Like the drawing created in the performance, lines built up to define a path of movement then reversed and erased.

A computerized voice expressed a desire to be everywhere and nowhere, everyone and no one while a second track, taken from my writings, overlaid a voice whispering as if she were light and breath in an unnamed space. The three projections were installed in relation to a set of mirrors creating a kaleidoscope of images and reflected the body of the viewer.