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Latitude 14: Red Fly/Blue Bottle
Nov 05, 2010 - Nov 06, 2010
EMPAC Studio 1
RPI | Troy, NY | 518-276-4135
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/
Aided by a young doppelganger straight out of silent film and an elderly entomologist, composer/performer Christina Campanella spins a sonic web that traces a young woman’s discovery of her companion’s deployment to a secret war and the steps she takes to make sense of his absence. Staged as a concert that unfolds within a densely layered video installation, Latitude 14's Red Fly/Blue Bottle conjures an associative visual landscape in which objects open up in unexpected ways, revealing worlds within worlds. Tightly crafted songs emerge from an evocative terrain of found sounds, ticking clocks, and analog tone generators. Miniature noir films are projected onto floating surfaces; live and pre-made video animates still objects. Red Fly/Blue Bottle explores the mediating effects of memory and how we use the power of our imagination to surmount that which we have lost.