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Concept, direction, cinematography, montage, sound design: Christina McPhee 2009-2010 christinamcphee.net Ambient site sound composition remixed to Pauline Oliveros, Ghostdance, ©Deep Listening Publications, ASCAP). paulineoliveros.us/ Tesserae signal supersaturated carbon and methane topographies of our sister planet, Venus. In California, large scale energy landscapes, from natural gas and geothermal plants to water control, dominate huge landscapes.…
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A tribute to Carolee Schneemann's MEAT JOY (1964) set in the oil fields and dipped in red paint. a film by Christina McPhee 2010 Shot at the San Ardo Petroleum Fields, Monterey County, California; remix/appropriation of clips from MEAT JOY; Concept, sound, photography and montage by Christina McPhee http://christinamcphee.net Artist's comment: " I had never seen "Meat Joy" until I happened upon it at the Tate Modern in November 2007.…
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Outtakes from the Tesserae of Venus photomontage suite http://christinamcphee.net/photo/dynamic_sink_pulse.html 2009 with sound by Brian Mackern from the suite Temporal de Santa Rosa, tracks 10 and 12 http://netart.org.uy/xtcs/archivos.html
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Direction,camera, editing, sound design: Christina McPhee a naxsmash group production 2010 Ambient local sound with additional recordings from the series “Temporal de Santa Rosa,” by Brian Mackern http://netart.org.uy/xtcs/archivos.html from the project “Tesserae of Venus” by CHristina McPhee 2009/10 http://www.christinamcphee.net/tesserae/index.html 2009 HDTV 1080i 1920 x 1080 16:9 3 minutes 20 seconds In the Sacramento River Delta, amidst…
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TESSERAE OF VENUS : GHOSTDANCE with music by Pauline Oliveros Tesserae signal supersaturated carbon and methane topographies of our sister planet, Venus. In California, large scale energy landscapes, from natural gas and geothermal plants to water control, dominate huge landscapes. Could it be here that the first poetics of a future landscape of carbon saturation appear? What does living in a landscape of massive ambient atmospheric threat and…
Tesserae of Venus: a science fiction project imagining the 'arrival' of carbon-saturated atmosphere on Earth
Jamming the liminal sites where biosphere meets big scale energy technology-- a dream of Venus arriving tectonically in tesseracts, squishing time, mixing toxins in hopes of a cure, deliriously overheated-- our hothouse landscapes move into a new space/time..we montage shelters out of transverse tents, we signal with solar powered warning lights in the midst of parking lots, shopping malls, geothermal plants and oil fields--
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