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16mm film, digital projection, handmade light table.
Olive Tjaden Gallery. Ithaca, NY.
16mm footage was shot on location at the Stewart Park Pavilion where the Wharton Studios, a once prolific silent film production house, occupied the space a century ago in Ithaca, NY. The soundscape is a two-hour mix of a six-hour live performance that took place in the pavilion in collaboration with filmmaker Aaron Glasser, opera singer Emily Akpan, synthesizer musician Sergei Levitsky, dancers Leanna Myskiw and Elana Valastro. The performers improvised to the space, to film projected within that space, and to one another.
Pauline Shongov 