From Every Point, A Different Facet

Project Leaders:

Aleksandra Dulic, Kenneth Newby

Reaserchers:

Amber Choo, Matthew Brown

This interdisciplinary audio-visual installation harnesses multiple screens and audio channels that present fragments of the bodies of human face and voice. The image points to the way we judge and gain a sense of both ourselves and others. The experience is a complex audio/visual sculpture that becomes a single audiovisual image as one interacts with the space of the exhibition. This artwork blends visual anthropology with sound art processes that act as eyewitness to the experience of our regional cultural mosaic using artistic expression as a methodology to analyze, synthesize and communicate this experience.

From Every Point, a Different Facet is an interdisciplinary audio-visual installation that creates a dynamic cinematic environment encompassing multiple screens and audio channels that present fragments of the bodies of human face and voice. By choosing the face and voice as a center of attention the image points to the way we judge and gain a sense of both ourselves and others. The experience of "from every point different facet" is a complex audio/visual sculpture that becomes a single audiovisual image as one interacts with the space of the exhibition. The interactive aspects of the work provide points of focus for flows of both audible and visible images. This artwork blends visual anthropology, through novel photographic and animation, with sound art processes that act as eyewitness to the experience of our regional cultural mosaic using artistic expression as a methodology to analyze, synthesize and communicate this experience. The work is reflective of our contemporary multi-ethnic reality, depicting, almost literally, the metaphor of a cultural mosaic characteristic of the Canadian experiment.

This representation of multiplicities that make up the Northwest cultural mosaic was designed for the regional and community focus of the 10th Northwest Tacoma Art Museum Biennial. In honor of Tacoma Art Museum’s 75th Anniversary and to commemorate the milestone of two decades of biennial exhibitions, The 10th Northwest Biennialexamines the vital questions of who we are as residents of the Pacific Northwest, what we look like, and what are our aspirations for our communities.