"Arrhythmia" + "Play" by Szandra None
September 12–26, 2021
still image from “Arrhthymia”
still image from “Play”
Tell us about this artwork. What makes it unique?
“When I was making Arrhythmia, I made a time lapse clip of a piece of with fabric printed with stills from an earlier video melting out of a block of ice. Toying with the speed and direction of the clip, I created a visual that referenced a beating heart. Play is actually made using the printed fabric that I cut to make Arrhythmia. I was fascinated by watching the footage taken by a security camera of my daughters playing in the yard. I captured stills from the footage and arranged a repeating pattern which I then had printed onto a long run a fabric. I gave the girls the fabric to play with and captured their actions with the same security camera. Questioning whether there is actually any thing truly random about chance operations is at the heart of many of the processes of distortion that I ask my video footage to endure.”
How did you come to be an artist in video/digital media?
”I am interested in the possibility of intergenerational memory and transfer of knowledge across time. I often find myself wondering how experience and meaning evolve and change and take on entirely new meaning when remembered, retold, dreamed, forgotten and rediscovered. Video is an excellent media for creating generations.”