Blood Memory Collection
TITLE: Blood Memory1 (2011)
Digitized super 8mm film with sound
Duration: 4 min 16 sec, loop
Single channel video projection
Installation dimensions variable
Dream-like images from 8mm home movies create a poetic and intimate contemplation of memory. With tools old and new—8mm home movies and the iPhone—Drawing upon the use of home videos and the family album as ” archive ” the film-making process is a space to witness the past and simultaneously think about culture and self exploration through acts of remembrance.
TITLE: Blood (and) Memory2 (2019)
Digitized VHS video with found sound
Duration: 3 min 10 sec, loop
Single channel video projection
Installation dimensions variable
Eight years after creating Blood Memory, from S-8 film footage, the artist presents a second work, Blood (and) Memory2, a split screen remix of home movies recorded on VHS tape. The video incorporates four layers of sonic compositions: arranged and digitally remixed voice narration over the original VHS tape audio, with a base layer of found “flute beat box” music. In this piece, time shifts away from the 1979 dreamlike film footage into the glitch and hot pink video revolution of 1985. Here, the constructions of indigenous memory is one that is split between times; one that fast forwards and rewinds and that stops to dance. The era and the memories in both films are felt through movement, colors and sound.
- Momaday, N. Scott. 1989. House Made of Dawn. ↩︎
- Allen, Chadwick. “Blood (and) Memory.” American Literature 71, no. 1 (1999): 93–116. ↩︎