a static‑flavored shape
iterative media installation
dimensions variable
2018
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dissonant ethnography
a static-flavored shape is an iterative video installation articulating psychological spaces and silent narratives specific to the experience of pacific islanders and the unique dysphoria that results from inter-generational trauma. The work is an attempt to create a type of “dissonant ethnography” centered around the abstraction of qualitative data, culled from personal memory, familial oral histories and online investigations. Themes addressed specifically include centrality of event as it pertains to the construction of identity in individuals who have experienced trauma, noise aesthetics as an analog for cultural dysphoria, and the immaterial as signifier.
