The Pile Comes to Life
Performance/installation with found objects and laptop
2006


Video documentation above, or
Listen to an mp3 of the performance.

Developed during a residency at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, "The Pile Comes to Life" is a performance/seance with a garden rake, teacup glockenspiel, and a pile of discarded clothes that comes to life.

One of the essential questions I wanted to deal with while at Elsewhere was the question of the former lives of the objects in the collection. Did they still retain some of the lives of their owners, a "spirit" for lack of a better term, or had that been drained and the objects discarded, waited to be filled with new meaning?




A view of the installation, teacup xylophone, and pile
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Another view of the installation.




The Pile.




The Pile comes to life, playing the xylophone.