Title: Whoop House
Year: 2022
Materials: wood, metal, plastic, solar panels, solar generator, electronics, speakers, mixer, microphone, hardware, epoxy, paint
Dimensions: 120 x 84 x 84.5 inches
Year: 2022
Materials: wood, metal, plastic, solar panels, solar generator, electronics, speakers, mixer, microphone, hardware, epoxy, paint
Dimensions: 120 x 84 x 84.5 inches
Images: Ash Arder,Diane Cheklich, My Proulx
Whoop House
Whoop House is a completely solar-powered sound sculpture that records and plays back instruments and voices of community members. The mobile sculpture includes a solar energy micro-grid designed to power popular musical equipment like keyboards, turntables, microphones, and speakers. The modular design of the sculpture allows it to travel between neighborhoods on the lower east side of Detroit where heavy rains often cause flooding and power outages. As the effects of climate change, social unrest, and widespread health disparities continue to impact Black and Brown Detroiters, Whoop House invites neighbors of all ages to learn about solar power through music and storytelling.
Title: w@rship
Year: 2021
Materials: speakers, sound, lights, grandfather’s sailing garments, chains, solar generator, iPad
Dimensions: variable
Year: 2021
Materials: speakers, sound, lights, grandfather’s sailing garments, chains, solar generator, iPad
Dimensions: variable
Images: Ash Arder,David Hale
w@rship
w@rship was an experimental soundscape and meditation on bodily and mechanical vessels at war, and their journey to stay alive on Earth's powerful waters. Found sounds vibrate through speakers clothed in my grandfather’s sailing garments in Richmond virginia’s He was one of the first Black submariners in the US Navy during World War II. The soundscape combines found sounds related to water, war, and worship with sounds captured from the bell of my grandfather’s submarine, which is on display at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Title: hope ur well
Year: 2021
Materials: Playstation 4, Farming Simulator video game, projector, scaffolding, speakers
Dimensions: Variable
Year: 2021
Materials: Playstation 4, Farming Simulator video game, projector, scaffolding, speakers
Dimensions: Variable
Images: Ash Arder, Tamara Rosenblum
hope ur well
Live performance in the urban garden attached to the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in the meatpacking district of Omaha, Nebraska. I sit on scafolding playing a videogame that allows users to cultivate digital crops with realistic farm machinery. I operate a digital harvester to carve a message into a plot of land while users watch and try to figure out what the message is. This style of performance merges concrete poetry with land art, all in the virtual realm.
Live performance in the urban garden attached to the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in the meatpacking district of Omaha, Nebraska. I sit on scafolding playing a videogame that allows users to cultivate digital crops with realistic farm machinery. I operate a digital harvester to carve a message into a plot of land while users watch and try to figure out what the message is. This style of performance merges concrete poetry with land art, all in the virtual realm.
Title: 0636
Year: 2021
Materials: 12 polyethylene hard hats, steel chain, steel hardware, Master Lock combination padlock
Dimensions: Variable
Year: 2021
Materials: 12 polyethylene hard hats, steel chain, steel hardware, Master Lock combination padlock
Dimensions: Variable
Images:
Ash Arder
Ash Arder
0636
Omega II hard hats are sold by the case at a minimum of 12 and in multiples of 12. They exist in this work as both literal and symbolic tools of labor, industry, and control. This work is part of a series of reflections on the materials, implements, gestures, and rituals involved in human interaction with large-scale machinery. I believe machines have the capacity to hold, remember and prefer encounters with some materials - including human flesh, over others. This series acknowledges objects as entities that actively receive and transmit energetic information.
Omega II hard hats are sold by the case at a minimum of 12 and in multiples of 12. They exist in this work as both literal and symbolic tools of labor, industry, and control. This work is part of a series of reflections on the materials, implements, gestures, and rituals involved in human interaction with large-scale machinery. I believe machines have the capacity to hold, remember and prefer encounters with some materials - including human flesh, over others. This series acknowledges objects as entities that actively receive and transmit energetic information.
Title: wrap 02
Year: 2021
Materials: 6 polyethylene hard hats, hardware, wood, nylon fabric
Dimensions: 6h x 8w x 1d (ft)
Year: 2021
Materials: 6 polyethylene hard hats, hardware, wood, nylon fabric
Dimensions: 6h x 8w x 1d (ft)
Images: Ash Arder
wrap 02
Omega II hard hats are sold by the case at a minimum of 12 and in multiples of 12. Half of one case are embedded in this installation as both literal and symbolic tools of labor, industry, and control. This work is part of a series of reflections on the materials, implements, gestures, and rituals involved in human interaction with large-scale machinery. I believe machines have the capacity to hold, remember and prefer encounters with some materials - including human flesh, over others. This series acknowledges objects as entities that actively receive and transmit energetic information.
Omega II hard hats are sold by the case at a minimum of 12 and in multiples of 12. Half of one case are embedded in this installation as both literal and symbolic tools of labor, industry, and control. This work is part of a series of reflections on the materials, implements, gestures, and rituals involved in human interaction with large-scale machinery. I believe machines have the capacity to hold, remember and prefer encounters with some materials - including human flesh, over others. This series acknowledges objects as entities that actively receive and transmit energetic information.
