Morgen Christie

 

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I create Public video art screenings that focus on the history of aging and life span, not only in a century change duration, but also a 15-minute light change duration. The relationship of time to memory is incredibly important to me. I hope to cement the neighborhood to its subconscious through the mythology of time. The structures I project upon have been here for centuries. I reinstate their history with those of the present by cleansing them with liquid light. I am immortalizing a moment in a few hours at most, depending on the battery of my power bank. Since the projections are so temporary the memory will only be reconciled in the documentation, as a still image.

 

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The installations occur at sites of ruins, mostly grist and saw mills, but also forges and furnaces. I am attempting a balancing act in preservation and acknowledgment of technological timelines, by using digital equipment to memorialize the industrial revolution. The very tools that made it obsolete. I also consider how colonization has rendered the memory of this area. the land the mills were built on conquered the agricultural revolution, and the hunter-gatherers before it.

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