Sea Cave Transmogrification III
Live, community-activated performance
Site-responsive, interactive audiovisual installation in Berlin, Germany.
A sea cave is projection mapped onto the street Glogauerstrasse outside of GlogauAIR residency.
The architecture of the streetscape transforms the architecture of the (projected) sea cave and vice versa. The installation improvises with its environment.
Audio from the project Sea Cave Transmogrification I and Sea Cave Complex (please see videos below) is played in tandem with the projections. The audio works are experimental compositions exploring a sea cave’s acoustical architecture, born of the project Sea Cave Transmogrification I, in which a sea cave became a sound sculpture via wire and bow (please see video below). The audio from the original sea cave installation enters into an ephemeral, improvised dialogue with live audio occurring on the street. Both sites—sea cave and street--enter into a soniferous relationship, transforming into something new entirely.
The installation improvises with its environment. With the sea cave projected onto the street, viewers entering the installation become performers in that installation, via moving through time and space. We enter into a feedback loop with the work. How do the ways we move through a space influence our perceptions of acoustical phenomena in that space?
2022
For this project, footage from an earlier installation, Sea Cave Transmogrification I, is projection mapped onto Glogauerstrasse. The project asked questions like: what happens when a relationship to a specific site is brought into conversation with another site? In this case, a sea cave with a street in Berlin? What happens when the viewer transmogrifies to performer? With the sea cave projected on the sidewalk, viewers entering the installation become performers in that installation, via moving through time and space. We enter into a feedback loop with the project. How do the ways we move through a space influence our perceptions of acoustical and visual phenomena in that space? And how might the work improvise with the environment in which it is placed?
The audio component of the installation is comprised of experimental compositions I built from audio recordings of the sea cave’s acoustical architecture. When two sites meet—the sea cave and the street—the sea cave compositions enter into a conversation with live audio from the street, creating an entirely new sonic signature.
The work is performative and interactive. Public interaction shapes the work; viewers engage haptically via sonics and shadow interaction. Viewers activate the intervention by pausing to share an ear or a shadow. We enter a virtual cave in which to meditate on sense of place, landscape, ecological relationships, and perception.
