News

“This winter was not a good one for farmers in the fertile crescent. A punishing drought hit most of Syria and northern Iraq during what most scientists are calling the wettest time of the year.”

News (6 min, 2014) is a collaboration with visual and sound artist Giancarlo Colaianni. Much of the text is repurposed from found news articles from the summer of 2014. News was created as part of Heat: A night of Collaborative Friction, August 2nd, 2014 in New York City. Shot by Jordan Levie.

 

News, 6 minutes, HDV, color and sound, 2014


Installations view:

I installed the video inside a metal filing cabinet. The video begins playing when the drawer is opened, stops when the drawer is closed, and begins again from the beginning when the video is opened again.