geophasms

iterative media installation
dimensions & media run-time variable
2016

Related Series: dissonant ethnography

geophasms is a series of expanded cinema presentations. Exploring a concept described as “dissonant ethnography,” the work uses projection-based installation to alter perceived narrative in ways that make each encounter not only site-specific but viewing-specific. Each presentation becomes a culmination of intentionally random coincidences combined with perceptual and physical filters that disrupt or realign the media as it unfolds.

The project attempts to produce an episodic, modular documentary film that considers the unique ontology of the Polynesian diasporic experience by examining minute facets—subcultures, marginal practices, or fringe occurrences that do not claim to represent the whole but nevertheless illuminate idiosyncratic realities within a broader cultural spectrum. The distortions inherent in any subjective account of events are heightened and foregrounded through willful obfuscation, intentional deletion, and processes of randomization.

geophasms functions as a cinematic system operating as a feedback loop—one that actively disturbs itself.