geophasms ("went split afakasi")

video projection, wood, plexiglass, water, four-channel audio
dimensions & media run-time variable
2016

Part of geophasms

Related Series: dissonant ethnography

geophasms (“went split afakasi”) is a collection of cinéma & audio vérité produced on O’ahu, Hawai’i in early 2016. Conversations between family members discussing the reality of life in Hawai’i as Samoan-Azorean immigrants, as queer people, as disoriented progeny of cultural assimilation, as current navigators of extreme socioeconomic disparities. The image and sound are contained on separate loops, each presented in asynchronous revolutions that never align. To further abstract the presentation and to highlight the gaps in knowledge and veracity of observation, two elements are introduced: a reflective, black mirrored tank of water and binaural low-frequency tones. The image is projected into the tank and bounced onto the screen, while the loops of low-frequency tones are fed into the soundtrack. The result is a purposeful severance of the cinematic experience, with the image destroying itself via pattern interference and the soundtrack receding into the deluge of noise.