Marking, Very, Nearly, Away

Installation project, Highways Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, 2011

Marking, Very, Nearly, Away, an interactive installation, invited the audience to mark their presence in time and space. Using live video feed and drawing, traditional and digital approaches to recording the body are explored in real-time through audience participation.

The viewer was invited to participate in the work by drawing on a large sheet of paper in the gallery. Video of a drawing of a hand being made by Leister was projected on the wall opposite of the drawing. As the audience drew on the paper, a live-feed camera inserted the bodies of the audience into the projection layering drawing and bodies.