Creative Capital

Description

Ultra-Local Sublime is a performance installation that captures and explores small geographic sites through a combination of panoramic video, live shadow puppetry, and original music. Although designed in the spirit of grand 19th century painted panoramas, this project replaces the static paintings with kinetic shadows, film, and narration to animate and “excavate” the natural, built, and folkloric layers of an intimate space. The installation consists of a portable elliptical room made of curved projection screens onto which video segments cross-fade with the warm light of shadow puppetry performed by puppeteers. Ultra-Local Sublime shows how the tension between technical video and low-tech shadows can offer a playful and rigorous take on what is concrete or ephemeral about spaces and our relationship to them. The goal is to establish an ongoing performance exhibit model wherein audiences visualize ultra-local spaces as sublime points of universal connection.