Michelle Helene Mackenzie, In Violet Air, 2020 sound work with video, 8:04 min. Cameraperson: Dylan Godwin. Courtesy the artist.
Michelle Helene Mackenzie: In Violet Air
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In Violet Air (2020) is an audiovisual meditation on virtuality, dissociation, the generative possibilities of zones of crisis, and alienation. In a search for mystery and collective ritual in an unreal city, Mackenzie and her quadruped companion moved through newly strange landscapes, drawing from the traditions of Hildegard Westerkamp鈥檚 soundwalks, Janet Cardiff鈥檚 audiowalks and Pauline Oliveros鈥檚 solo meditations, yielding their own speculative, synthesized, multi-dimensional traverse. In Violet Air was shot with an LG cell phone and recorded with a Zoom recorder, modular synth and digital instruments during phase one of Vancouver鈥檚 Covid-19 pandemic response.
A version of In Violet Air with verbal description is below:
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Michelle Helene Mackenzie is a writer, musician and artist born in Vancouver, the unceded traditional territories of the x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m, Skwxw煤7mesh and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta涩 Nations. Mackenzie has studied at 丁香园AV and Duke University, and will begin a PhD at the University of California, San Diego in autumn 2020. Mackenzie鈥檚 works have been presented with 221A (Vancouver), the Albertinum (Dresden), the Capilano Review鈥檚 Small Caps (Vancouver), the Cultch鈥檚 Soft Cedar (Vancouver), Deep Blue (Vancouver), the Esker Foundation (Calgary), the Hand (New York), Kadist Gallery (San Francisco), the Operating System (Brooklyn), the Polygon Gallery (North Vancouver), the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Western Front (Vancouver).
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