Installation + Performance #6

Yevgeniya Kaganovich

What resonated with me the most about Kaganovich’s work is the way she describes it, especially in the piece repine. She writes, “In repine, the site specific film projections evoke a state where reason and language fail.” Throughout all of my work, no matter the subject matter, this is what I aim to do, and if the images of this installation are anything to go by, this work does it very successfully. I also find the way that the piece interacts with the surroundings very interesting.

Making, Not Knowing by Ann Hamilton

I had seen Ann Hamilton’s pinhole mouth cameras before, but had never read anything about her work. I’ve been reading a lot about rest and connection as an artistic practice though, and this work really taps into that. One quote of hers that I really liked was “…we love in a time when it is especially challenging to articulate the importance of experiences that don’t produce anything obvious, aren’t easily quantifiable, resist measurement, aren’t easily named, are categorically in between.” I think that it’s more important now than ever to get comfortable with ambiguity, as all forms of ambiguity are under attack, which we can see through things like transphobia, political extremism, and religious tribalism. While art doesn’t solve this problem, the relationships and conversations between art and artists reveal something close to truth. This is why experimentation is so important. Creating work with a statement in mind is valuable, but triangulating the truth through play and ambiguity often is more accurate.