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| NAXSMASH INSTALLATION |
2007 |
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Naxsmash |
Installation 1/12 |
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naxsmash interprets entrapment as a net
space, inside networked communications that have proliferated along
with the global epidemic of sex trafficking of women and children.
It laments the silencing and disappearance of human lives, as if
expendable commodities in a supply chain, within red ropes, red for
violence, ropes for restraint. The core piece is a hanging set of
digitally printed transparent scrims suspended like oversized film
strips in an errant assemblage. What’s on or in them appear
to be still or photographic images, saturated, with streaks of orange
and red in rope-like strands. Here and there, you can perceive the
image of a woman— or parts of her: her hands, her eyes. It
seems to be a figure that’s locked up, trapped somehow within
or behind the scrims She can- not fully be seen, but she gives you
the impression that she is not only seeing you, she is looking at
you. The video also seems to have something to do with this woman
moving within the narrow, hollow projections of light. Her face and
flashes of her body appear and disappear, in layers. The gaze of
a double, her tied up hands, her breathing, moves through the scrims.
The scrims are held in place through a system of ropes laced via
grommet perforations at their ends, like the sewing cards used by
little children, when they are taught how to thread a needle and
sew pieces of cloth together.
naxsmash as an ongoing project includes multimedia installation,
performance and net art and is adapted and modified by the space
and use of each public site where it is built. “naxsmash” refers
to birth or negation in a place “x” where the birth and
the negation smash together. Related net art and texts at:
http://www.naxsmash.net
Live performance installations of naxsmash change with each new venue:
Xin retail space, Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, 2002; Vancouver, BC,
Canada (Moonbase Gallery and "Digitalis: Concerning the Spiritual
in Digital Art," 2001) ; Digital Studio/California Museum of
Photography, 2002; Melbourne, Australia (DIgital Arts and Culture
Conference, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2003) ; Weimar,
Germany (Deutsches Nationaltheatre / Bauhaus University / with back-up
festival of new media and film, 2003; SelectMedia Festival, Chicago,
2003; San Francisco Performance Cinema Symposium, 2003. Architectural
design students collaborated for “Naxsmash: Global Poetry at
the Powerhouse”, at California Polytechnic State University
Department of Architecture, 2001 and at the architecture Medialab
in 2002. The image stills and online clip here are from the Medialab
installation (2002).
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Dimensions: variable
Duration: Changes with each new venue |
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