There’s a Florida threshold that divides what is built and destroyed. The wall that divides interior to exterior that may be violated by the burst of wind pressure; or a TV monitor that can graft the polarities of an oncoming hurricane path with corporate investment promotional video. As we hover between above and below the rising ocean, we are also situated at the gateway between communism and capitalism then, and post-communism and post-capitalism now.
The porosity of such a space was embedded within the installation which borrowed from moving images and objects via the Wolfson Archive and HistoryMiami. In addition, the work spliced the climate of 2017 so to speak by incorporating found or produced footage. The installation featured design and fabricated elements which trap this condition and utilize immersive
projection mapping as well as a single channel video on a single monitor.
Landscape (Test Patterns for Future Positions) provided an opportunity to continue A.S.T.’s study of immersive environments and the relationship between context, scale and process. The archival and found footage were used as test case media to simulate a series of speculative landscapes and conditions found within South Florida’s history. The set oscillated in scale and in meaning, between the literal material presence of the space, and the illusion of simulated environments being projected.
