Sixty Seconds in Situ

Video installation, 1:08 run time

27 x 71 in. banners

24 x 36 in. posters

December 5–December 8, 2017

Sixty Seconds in Situ originated from a brief assignment in creating one-minute sculptures with found materials from the graduate studio. I initially manipulated and collaged photographs of my “sculptures” into a set of banners then printed them at larger-than-life scale. After printing additional copies of the photos, I filmed myself manipulating them in different ways and assembled the re-sulting clips into a video collage. The still images and videos build, overlap, and recede on a black-and-white grid as a timer counts down one minute, echoing the temporal nature of the prompt. Together, the pieces of this installation served as a record of experimentation and of the graduate studio itself. The title refers to the fact that the site of each of these sculpture experiments and the exhibition site were one in the same. Unforeseen to me, the combinations, juxtapositions, and happy accidents that transpired through this process ended up creating a kind of documentation of the sights, sounds, and energies surrounding the first semester of grad school.