april like a dream

live performance with original soundscape on 35 mm slide carousel 

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This projection piece combines blurred moving imagery with an original soundscape, using analogue projection to explore nostalgia, confession, and the compulsive replaying of personal memory. The slide carousel references older domestic technologies traditionally used to view family photographs and vacation slides, carrying the romanticism and distortion that often shapes how the past is remembered. I was interested in how analogue processes can aestheticize memory, softening it through repetition while also exposing its instability and flaws.

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The work draws from ideas surrounding confessional art, where personal experience becomes publicly circulated and emotionally consumed. Rather than presenting autobiography as stable truth, the blurred and partially obscured imagery resists full clarity, functioning more like fragments, emotional residue, or fixation than straightforward documentation. The piece also requires my physical presence to operate it, as I manually activate and advance the slides throughout the performance. This repetitive gesture turns remembering into an ongoing action, where the images only continue existing through continual reactivation.

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Sound became central to the atmosphere of the work, shaping how the projected space is experienced and altering the relationship between image, body, and environment. As Steven Connor writes, “the singular space of the visual is transformed by the experience of sound to a plural space.” Through projection, blur, repetition, and sound, the piece explores how intimate memories become aestheticized, replayed, and consumed over time. This was my first time creating a soundscape in GarageBand.