Death by landscape - installation
Installation View, V.2. 2024Installation View, V.2. Low resolution video clip sample. 2024"Death by Landscape is an immersive space that offers the audience an opportunity for pause and reflection on their own mortality, more-than-human life mortality, and those who have already passed. It’s a contemporary memento mori that utilizes symbolism of suspended shrouds and a deconstructed coffin-form to represent death and loss. A video of more-than-human worlds projected onto the side of the coffin-form are fragmented on the wall behind it. These video images are reminders of life, and the responsibility humans have to more-than-human kin. A shadow cast from the coffin-form onto the projected video is a reminder that death is ever present, while the video projection on the side of the coffin-form indicates life is still present and active even when there’s loss. The soundscape plays in tandem with the video with sounds of sea life, birds, crickets, and frogs that are overlaid with the rumble of thunder, wind, drone of a Tibetan singing bowl, and ringing of Koshi chimes. Human presence is heard faintly through the squeak of an exterior door, rustle of a coat sleeve, and drone of planes flying through the atmosphere. The soundscape is a calming sound bath and acts as a salve for the imagery. It holds the space."This installation represents two years of research and the developing of deep listening methodologies which include meditative sound walks, field recordings, cell phone video recordings of more-than-human encounters, and embodied performative acts as immersive experiences. The majority of the sounds, videos, and embodied acts were recorded on Hornby Island within the unceded traditional territory of the K’omoks First Nation, a place I call home. ©2024Death by Landscape mixed media installation, video, sound, projection. 2024 Photo: Andrew InaDeath by Landscape mixed media installation, rear view. 2024Death by Landscape mixed media installation, the artist lying in repose. 2024 Photo: Andrew InaDeath by Landscape mixed media installation, Bio shroud detail. 2024Death by Landscape mixed media installation, detail Shroud study: soft shroud (as weighted blanket). 2023Death by Landscape mixed media installation, Detail. Coffin-form panel. 2024. Biomaterials: tulle, seaweed, kelp, charcoal, ashDeath by Landscape. projected video and soundscape, 10:33 mins. 2024 A video montage of 30 sec and 60 sec cell phone recordings of more-than-human worlds I encountered while on deep listening walks. The accompanying soundscape is field recordings and instruments utilized in sound healing therapies. The video projects onto the side of the coffin-form and becomes fragmented on the wall behind it. This speaks to the fragility of all life, the interconnections between human and more-than-human worlds, and a reminder of the responsibility we have for all life forms. There are video frames of white which act as moments of pause.Death by Landscape mixed media installation, interior view. 2024