Orca (2014) Digital Video
"This video shows an orca in a constant, oscillating spin that highlights the animal as an object. Furthermore, the orca is trapped out of water where its performativity contradicts the location where its custodial [totemic] space is effective, the sea. The video is displayed with an orca skull, which asks viewers to consider their curiosity with oddities as real objects collide with our virtualized assumptions."
"This video shows an orca in a constant, oscillating spin that highlights the animal as an object. Furthermore, the orca is trapped out of water where its performativity contradicts the location where its custodial [totemic] space is effective, the sea. The video is displayed with an orca skull, which asks viewers to consider their curiosity with oddities as real objects collide with our virtualized assumptions."
This piece is a part of Totemic Taxonomies, a collaborative project with Cathleen Faubert, shown at Science Museum Oklahoma.
Press: Art Focus Oklahoma - ‘Collecting & Connecting'; The Oklahoman - ‘Cabinets of Curiosity’
