FAMILY SOUNDS

THE UNGOVERNABLE ZONE

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FORT TILDEN

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ANARKO ART LAB AND ARTI NYC

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Nina A. Isabelle / The Ungovernable Zone at Fort Tilden Beach / NYC

 

Fort Tilden is a defunct United States Military base now listed as NYC accessible ruins along the coast in Queens. 

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As an inquiry into motherhood, "Family Sounds" involved a site-responsive approach to the superimposition of an internal childhood landscape onto the defunct Ft. Tilden military base along with self-reflexive research referencing quantum nonlocality, interpretive movement, and the manipulation of physical material to align intention with action as evolved ritual. To start, I visited my childhood home in central Pennsylvania and collected audio samples like gunshots, piano, flute, and conversation. I also collected materials from an old family barn such as safety nets, camouflage burlap, industrial Velcro, and vinyl pieces. I used these materials to construct a giant robe and from the audio samples I melded a cacophonic multilayered soundscape as a way to create a tethered telepathic multigenerational connection. During the performance I blinded myself under the giant robe and bent my psyche into the constructed auditory and kinesthetic dimensions where I psychically postscribed childhood memories as a way to explore motherhood. One challenge of working this way is that documentation and integration of unlanguageable data uncovered along the way becomes difficult as perceptions expand beyond the framework of linear languages.

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PHOTOS BY JAIME ROSENFELD 

JULY 8, 2017