Aki
TITLE: Aki
TRT: 5:10
Video installation with monitors | Color | 2022
Commissioned by The First Peoples Fund
Premier: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C
Aki is Earth. Using materials and metaphors and symbolism to explore Ojibwe stories of creation, Aki is conceptual and links the past into the future. To move beyond what we can see, the film uses photomicrography – a DSLR camera mounted onto a microscope – for footage of seeds, biological cells, and blood with a soundscape generated by animal life acoustics, lake water, wild onions, pine, and other cultural elements that become conductors of sounds through electricity and heat – creating an unusual insight into our creation and an ongoing relationship to EARTH on a microscopic and macro scale.
