a prism, 2016
Fabric, canvas, acrylic, ink and sound installation
13.09' x 22.09'
Sound:
Song: “That’s the Way of the World”,
Written by Maurice White, Charles Stepney, Verdine White Performed by RTM
Produced by Scott Benzel and Rodney McMillian Samples:
Alice Coltrane, “Journey to Satchidananda”
With special thanks to Tamara Silvera
Inaccessible space (music playing from the other side of the fabric barrier). Alternating, vertical stripes (fabric/painted). Which side are we on? In or Out? As if it were that binary?
Painting 3, Avery F. Gordon, 2016
Vinyl on wall
33.50 x 60.00 inches
pod: frequencies to a manefestationing, 2016
Vases, wood shelves, spray paint, fabric, chicken wire,
PA system and sound installation Dimensions variable
Sound: 1. 2.
Shirley Chisholm speaking at UCLA 5/22/1972
Soundtrack:
Produced by Scott Benzel and Rodney McMillian Samples:
Alice Coltrane, “Journey to Satchidananda” Sonny Sharrock, “Ask the Ages”
Empty black vessels stand atop white furnishings congregated loosely around a central form (black organic shape (solid or not) which contrasts with hard-edge furniture and vessels) and radiating sound from two central speakers (a relatively coherent voice, overhead) facing opposing directions. Surrounding sounds mingle with other abstract incoherent sounds (the perimeter, peripheral) from elsewhere. With the alignment of two speakers directly above the rock-like form, it's not hard to think of head and body or god and land (planet). Whatever the metaphor, images of surveillant power, omnipotent, panoptic views reverberate.
Unfulfilling projected words despite compelling sound and image... Ultimately, the spoken words do not fill these vessels. No one is listening in this empty room.
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