tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61166582011-04-21T20:43:46.258-07:00episodic speculative fiction hotspotkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04937259395669031969noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6116658.post-1069537646426753252003-11-22T14:45:00.000-08:002004-04-13T17:13:50.716-07:00INVISIBLE <br />episode 03 <br />Here and Now: Meet me in Okemah, OK Circa 1911 <br />a project by kara lynch <br /> <br />In 2099, the transatlantic slave trade never happened. The event disappeared from the history books. A strange cult keeps the false memory alive through ritual bondage and transport of bodies across imaginary borders. In ‘Invisible’, maritime meets speed of light. Inspired by Ralph Ellison’s novel, ‘the Invisible Man’, Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’, and John Akomfrah’s film ‘Last Angel of History’, this time based electronic blkgrrrlretrofuture, sci-fi action-documentary takes on issues of black radicalism, turn of the century phenomena, passing and cross-over cultures. Two main characters dominate our experience in this futurescape. One, Z.L. Rhinehart is a CLEANER, the other, Nia Tabono, a TIME-TOURIST. We now have the technology to move freely between a time/space continuum without adverse effect. There is no present/future ‘consequence’ for altering the past – the grandfather paradox - has no weight: thanks to a corps of CLEANERS. This chameleon caste melts into any era as they follow the every move of careless TIME-TOURISTs, picking up after them, shifting events to remedy their clumsy interactions with past and future landscapes. This episodic story speculates the black liberation parallel to eurotrash western civilization in the conflux of public record and sci-fi. <br /> <br /> <br />here and now <br />The current episode: ‘meet me in Okemah, Ok circa 1911’ (to be completed June 2004) is an outdoor video/audio installation and complementary book that extrapolates upon a documentary photograph of a lynching in Oklahoma c.1911 and contemporary architecture. When this episode begins, our time tourist, Nia, finds herself yanked from a rivers edge to a skiff. An entrepreneurial photographer enlists her help. Above on the bridge, our Cleaner, Rhinehart, blends into the crowd of working Joes who have come to see the sights. Dangling from the steel girders, Laura Nelson and her fourteen year old son swing in the breeze, necks broken by one inch hemp rope. <br /> <br />‘Meet Me in Okemah, OK circa 1911’ falls deep inside the meta-narrative: the first episode produced, but like StarWars, this is nowhere near the beginning of our story. Pushing the genre of time travel and stretching space, this multidimensional, multidirectional piece will take installation form – a complete aural, visual experience in space-time. The piece will then live past the fleeting installation moment as text/image on the page and book on tape with hidden, bonus video tracks. In the next year, INVISIBLE will take the form of a graphic novel/enhanced CD book set. Taking cues from comics, fanzines, chapbooks and jet magazine – INVISIBLE will fit in your back pocket and circulate word of mouth.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6116658-106953764642675325?l=invisible-episode03.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04937259395669031969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6116658.post-1069535729791036742003-11-22T14:40:00.000-08:002004-01-29T17:53:49.093-08:00made possible by... <br /> <br />sound recording :: julia meltzer, k lynch <br /> <br />voice :: grisha coleman <br /> <br />hand model :: scott richards <br /> <br />projection consultant :: r. jones sanchez <br /> <br />rigging/construction :: jenny donovan <br /> <br />extra hands :: davina semo, lori gordon, matilda aslizadeh, christine dePierola-foerester <br /> <br />flyer design :: adoboy studios <br /> <br />research assistance :: Lillie M. Kerr, Oklahoma Historical Society; Ted Isham, Okmulgee Creek Council House; Wanda Sexton, Okfusgee Historical Society <br /> <br />administrative support :: bj barclay, betty jones, scott richards, fang chen, rodolfo <br /> <br />creative consultant/researcher :: morgan knight <br /> <br />photograph :: g.h. farnum courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society <br /> <br />sound + image :: collected on location in Galveston, TX and Okemah, OK <br /> <br />good advice :: b kruger, y espiritu, e myles, m alizadeh, c ferreria, k strickland, j pastor, a seko, a jenik, p dubois, s angelier, sappho, astrolab.com <br /> <br />funding :: russell grant, hepps grant, san diego fellowship, 'black russians' <br /> <br />love + support :: m portillo, j bob alotta, k tomes, l chua, lyncher, j donovan, r lewis, julia + david, shaze, j taylor, b + g coleman, skim, g sandoval, p bridgewater, sonia, sara t, j davidson, c hill, a seko, adoboy, matilda + arthur, ivancito, ave d kids, p montoya, c kalafatic, j rude, s silton, w ra'ad, euro-arabe, sabar hotline san diego, vaf surf team, camp hamp kids west, hsuifang chen, moustache house, le trihn + thuy, teknika radica, m wallner, hawley house, mom + dad <br /> <br />those before me :: samuel delany, octavia butler, leah gilliam, john akomfrah, ralph ellison, virginia woolf, colson whitehead, philip k dick, janet cardiff, william kentridge, gary simmons, tracey moffat, ousman sembene, jean marie teno, laylah ali, m dukan, chris marker, frantz fanon, anne mcclintock, lawrence chua, robin kelly, hazel carby, ida b wells ... <br /> <br />inspiration :: laura nelson + the pacific ocean <br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6116658-106953572979103674?l=invisible-episode03.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04937259395669031969noreply@blogger.com