2023
(MFA Thesis Project)
collaboration: projected time lapse video, experimental sound, original choreography, and live performance
16 minutes
Collaborators:
E. Gendreau-Distler
(choreography, mathematical systems)
Z. Gendreau-Distler
(experimental sound)
S. Gendreau-Distler
(choreography, live performance)
Thesis Advisors:
E. Greenberg
H. Greenberg
J. Pirone
Set in motion by a Fluxus-inspired set of event scores for each of my collaborators, the individual components of this piece were constructed independently, and were brought together in conversation for the first time at the opening performance.
Throughout the making of this piece, process was prioritized over output. The emphasis was on creating the conditions for the work to come together. As creators, we are simultaneously players and spectators of a game with multiple possible, unknown outcomes.
performance images ©2023 Christina Sanders
2023
series of five metal prints
20” x 24”
What other worlds of possibility exist? If what we perceive is based on incomplete bits of information merged with our own experiences, the versions of reality ought to be limitless. And yet, culturally, we lean in the direction of certainty, often an anthropocentric certainty. I am searching for something more expansive by asking: how else can we see? I do this by breaking things down and reassembling them … differently.
This work collaborates with the natural world, sees time as an imperfect construct, and relies on minimalism. I begin with order, push to disorder, and arrive back at some form of order. In doing so, I hope to uncover previously unnoticed patterns.
The raw material for these pieces comes from recordings of the sky made over a month, centered on the vernal equinox (3.20.2023, 17:24). The first of the grids begins with chronological order (time as we know it). A mathematical formula is applied to subsequent grids to systematically and iteratively re-sequence the frames until they are returned to chronological order in the last of the series.
2022
system based time lapse video consisting of a baseline and a series of interruption loops
14 minutes
There is no narrative in this piece. It is a study of seriality, minimalism, and systems. It also aligns with Barthes’ philosophy that, if it must be about anything, it as about the viewer’s experience.
There is no single point of entry, no intended path through, no correct answer. My goal for the work is to create a space where viewers can insert themselves and their perspectives and have whatever experience they have.
The work stems from an interest in how experience shapes perception and how perception shapes purported reality. It asks questions related to alternative possibilities.
2022
time lapse videos reorganizing time using systems based on modular arithmetic, musical structure, and chance operations
2 to 7 minutes
selected frames, inkjet prints
30” x 40”
This work began with a reference to the Kuleshov effect, followed the threads of time and perception, and became a kind of intentionally silent visual music. Drawing inspiration from minimalist music, it is an experimental consolidation of motion, rhythm, and philosophical inquiries.
Using generative constraints for recording and recontextualizing imagery, I am able to modulate my involvement in the process and allow the work to make itself. I begin with something that exists; then apply a system that alters it, sometimes gradually and subtly, sometimes dramatically and unexpectedly.
