Collidoscope works with the narrative of travel and how we get from place to place. It is an installation that offers the evidence of a body and story but no body. I used this residency to investigates how material, form, and color moves from something still into something in motion. From that basis, we explore how to create a picture and how that picture can create a story. Even more so, we ask the question of how does the story change as our minds shift. Our actions and gestures transform the story into a new narrative and this space embodies the play behind Collidoscope and its creation. Here we build together and in dialogue so as not to convey a definitive meaning, but rather a constellation that can always be recombined, to create a joint visual language of our expression. It’s about a constellation of important and haunting images of the home, the tent, the boat, the voyage, the body falling or flying, and the body's internal landscape. The work communes with the cultural and physical history of Governors Island as its shifts from an indigenous hunting ground to a military base and finally as a public park. We explore in this work a concept of patchwork poetics, to animate and recombine narratives, disciplines, and the collaborative practice.
Installation: Miriam Parker
Hanging and standing copper sculptures: Jo Wood-Brown
Mixed medium hanging sculptures: Miriam Parker
Hanging Sylphes: Jo Wood-Brown
Video on sand: Christina Smiros
Performance: Miriam Parker