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sana sana

sana sana, 2017; sound and video installation 55-gallon steel drums, water, synthrapol, ink

video: 7:17, 3:35, 3:37

To me, water barrels are a container that accumulates the sediment of people and place. They also reference the idea of group confluence and labor; more specifically, the acts of getting water from the water barrel to support our homes, families, and systems of living, also the use of these structures to create fires for people to be warmed by. I have chosen the steel drum, which is an industrial form. It is used to also transport oil, acetone, and other hazardous substances. This relationship between natural and unnatural, people and industry are the main issues that I work with in my written and visual practice. I am interested in how we synthesize and sanitize our natural world in order to contain our own animality. The barrels are filled with water, each one having a different level and having a speaker attached at different points in each barrel to create a spectrum of drowned noise. Each barrel has a video projected onto the water that centers around our relationships to water and the areas and people that we encounter it in and with. Each barrel contains a different video, as if it is in three acts.