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2014
A ROOM IN WHICH THE ONLY WALL IS IN THE MIDDLE
Cinematic Trap

Experimental Digital Arts, UCLA; Los Angeles, CA.

Modeled after the Malaise Trap, this installation redesigned a theater to mimic a ubiquitous tent-shaped flying insect trap, which has a single wall protruding down its center. The piece was performed live with 11 channels of audio, long swaths of black-out darkness, showcasing a 16mm film work shot along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in locations at sea, throughout the Faroe Islands and Iceland; all locations where Rene Malaise (inventor of said trap), believed to be the lost site of Atlantis.

A Room In Which The Only Wall Is In The Middle was an attempt to re-vision the food-chain as a closed loop, and proposes that the cinematic space of the theater, has always/already been itself a hungry being; with human psychology being its primary food source.

“To set such a trap requires a deep sensitivity to the materials at hand - a responsiveness, that is, to the opportunities available in the environment: an unnerving ability to coax effects from it, rather than imposing effects on it by the application of force alone; an activation of hidden possibilities, rather than, as it were, barking instructions at the world” - Benedict Singleton

“The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning you can forget the words.” - Zhuangzi