now & then
Submission Type
Performance
Start Date/Time (EDT)
20-7-2024 7:30 PM
End Date/Time (EDT)
20-7-2024 7:45 PM
Location
Algorithms & Imaginaries
Abstract
now & then
The proposed project is an experimental presentation via zoom that will combine performative lecture aspects with sound recordings and audience interaction. This presentation will take as its departure the author’s project now & then, which is an ongoing, multi-part transmedia project that includes a lecture essay, a series of recorded conversations, nonlinear text compositions, and slideshow presentations of images primarily concerning the life and work of photographer Alvin Baltrop; excerpts from this work will be presented along with images during the performance.
now & then has as its nexus a work of electronic literature on Twine. The project positions Twine as a constellation of archived instances, both historically verified and imaginary. Because of Twine’s capabilities, these instances are able to intersect in ways that create encounters which could not occur in linear time; instances far removed on the timeline are possible for the reader to link polytemporally.
The performance lecture places artworks and the artists that produce them in an ongoing conversation that spans back and forth across time. The lives and work of Alvin Baltrop, Every Ocean Hughes, David Wojnarowicz, David Hammons, and others at first appear temporally distant; navigating through the work on Twine, it gradually becomes clear that these works and points on the timeline converge at a body of water: the Hudson River and the ruins of the piers that once stood there.
This proposed performance is informed by notions of archival fluidity and futurity and a sustained engagement with the artistic output and archival materials of the photographer Alvin Baltrop. Artistic and academic research methodologies have informed an exploration of the reframes that collaborative dialogue might assume, with multiple possible pathways of access to and from it. Through re-enacting, or re-embodying, past events in the present moment, future possibilities and outcomes expand and diverge, and past histories are recalled and reclaimed. The ruins of the built environment function as a particularly profound site for the cross-temporal collaborations that this performance lecture proposes: in the ruins of what once was, the collapse of the past is understood. This is the space where infinite possibilities arise. It is where anything might be, where what is not yet formed could become, where the process of becoming exists in infinite permutations.
Recommended Citation
bricke, sarah, "now & then" (2024). ELO (un)linked 2024. 48.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/algorithmsandimaginaries/schedule/48
now & then
Algorithms & Imaginaries
now & then
The proposed project is an experimental presentation via zoom that will combine performative lecture aspects with sound recordings and audience interaction. This presentation will take as its departure the author’s project now & then, which is an ongoing, multi-part transmedia project that includes a lecture essay, a series of recorded conversations, nonlinear text compositions, and slideshow presentations of images primarily concerning the life and work of photographer Alvin Baltrop; excerpts from this work will be presented along with images during the performance.
now & then has as its nexus a work of electronic literature on Twine. The project positions Twine as a constellation of archived instances, both historically verified and imaginary. Because of Twine’s capabilities, these instances are able to intersect in ways that create encounters which could not occur in linear time; instances far removed on the timeline are possible for the reader to link polytemporally.
The performance lecture places artworks and the artists that produce them in an ongoing conversation that spans back and forth across time. The lives and work of Alvin Baltrop, Every Ocean Hughes, David Wojnarowicz, David Hammons, and others at first appear temporally distant; navigating through the work on Twine, it gradually becomes clear that these works and points on the timeline converge at a body of water: the Hudson River and the ruins of the piers that once stood there.
This proposed performance is informed by notions of archival fluidity and futurity and a sustained engagement with the artistic output and archival materials of the photographer Alvin Baltrop. Artistic and academic research methodologies have informed an exploration of the reframes that collaborative dialogue might assume, with multiple possible pathways of access to and from it. Through re-enacting, or re-embodying, past events in the present moment, future possibilities and outcomes expand and diverge, and past histories are recalled and reclaimed. The ruins of the built environment function as a particularly profound site for the cross-temporal collaborations that this performance lecture proposes: in the ruins of what once was, the collapse of the past is understood. This is the space where infinite possibilities arise. It is where anything might be, where what is not yet formed could become, where the process of becoming exists in infinite permutations.
Bio
sarah bricke is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher. She is primarily concerned with the ways in which seemingly disparate landscapes, bodies, and processes are both distinct and inextricably linked, and how these paradoxical relationships are represented, perceived, and preserved through institutional and archival practices.
She is interested in radical processes of rethinking, re-embodying, and re-imagining. Working through performative lecture, photographic processes, critical theory, and electronic literature, bricke engages in the production of text and images as a mechanism to facilitate dialogues: she is involved with making as a continual process in which things don’t become fully defined and can’t be considered completely understood or fully realized.