Strata: Zero, Zero_One

2020

STRATA: Zero, Zero_One

2020

Frequencies of Opacity

solo exhibition

Upfor Gallery, Portland OR
March 5- June 16, 2020

LED system, perforated stainless steel tube, speed rail, custom software, vocal data
Dimensions Variable

PORTALS of PRESENCE

The STRATA Series LED formations translate vocal data visualizations of migrant collaborators to provide portals of presence as mechanisms of anonymous spatial occupations.

These unique, individual representations signify communication as intentional existential acts of freedom.

Each vocal presentation illuminates the temporality of the human condition through nomadic virtual infrastructures to support the harmonics of difference as a choral act of resistance.

Through the porosity of these infrastructures, frequencies of opacity embrace a nomadic philosophy, leveraging the liminal space between these positions of embodiment is the constructive place for the viewer to consider – in relation – these conditions upon their own physical presence and the vulnerabilities and strengths of intersubjectivity.

Seeing as listening.

Radical beauty is embraced through the tool of abstraction, enabling an open translation of ourselves as the celestial embodiment of potentials.

As part of this project Roney Studio initiated a vocal database – STRATA: Mantras – for anonymous participatory contribution. Participants were able to record a mantra, phrase, song or prayer and see it become flowing animated movements across the LED video surface like visible sound waves. The Studio remains committed to maintaining the privacy and authorship rights of all participants and contributed materials. STRATA: Mantras was designed to ensure the anonymity of those involved and to allow for participants to decide when and how their contributions are used.