falling free (if these walls could talk), 2024
Steel strut, rigging hardware, meat hooks, microphone, boom stand, PA system, disco ball, haze, drywall dust, basement room that used to be a bar, Narcissus pseudonarcissus ink, resin, and spotlights
Dimensions variable

The symbol for the world wide web looks like a disco ball. The club is a space of potential, informed by the people in the room. My desire to have a live microphone is to capture an atmosphere, one dependent on the place and its inhabitants. The speakers are in the wall. The amplification of one’s voice is a powerful and daunting thing. Who has the right to speak? There is a constant suspension in the room. The meat hooks hanging, holding each other. It can spin if you touch it a little. The handmade elements are the levels set for the audio, the repainted boom stand, the color of the lights, the wiring for the light, and the hole drilled for the XLR cable that is going through the wall. The curtain rail was rescued and treated— grinded down and lightly polished. I guess I assembled a variety of rigging solutions. The space really dictated my decisions with the composition of the work. I had to use the pre-existing structures in the space to define the experience. The curtain is attached to a strut holding the water pipes. The disco ball hangs by all the ethernet. Possibility is potential. The void is to be protected.