Lovers Leap
Collaboration with Jonathan Furnell and Rachel Pittman
Single channel video: 4k video | sound | 3 minutes 18 seconds | 2023
Two-channel installation: HD video + 16mm to digital + VHS to digital | sound | 2023
Lovers Leap is on ongoing multi-modal work that explores Appalachian identity, mediation, and representation across mediums.
Presented first as a single channel video work and performance, blending found footage collage film, modern dance, and projection mapping.
The found footage piece is a layering of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring (16mm), a mid-century Appalachian educational film (16mm), and a 1980s North Carolina tourism video (VHS) that creates a collage of different delineations of Appalachia.
Installed a second time as part of the 11th Annual {Re}Happening at Black Mountain College across a single twelve hour window.
As the projections continually looped, participants were encouraged to draw on and alter the screens, creating a permanent document of each participant while existing as part of an impermanent exhibition.
Supported by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
