Rakish Light finished the first iteration of OO Guide to Sobriety in early 2020; two years later we revisited the original sites, adapting the same dual-lens camera to capture video of the double image projected inside the box — which meant carrying a camera that had been stationary. The now-moving images were surreal, eerie in a post-pandemic way; we paired the video with a soundtrack of singing bowls and voices recorded in an abandoned California train tunnel and showed it alongside the first iteration. Video: Which recounts what will be seen by whoever reads it, or heard by whoever listens to it being read (digital video, 120 min). Shown at The Suburban, 2022.
Rakish Light finished the first iteration of OO Guide to Sobriety in early 2020 with plans for an exhibition later that year. (This is when I began Other Spaces.) Two years later Rakish Light revisited the original sites, adapting the same camera to capture video of the double image projected inside the box.
The images, now moving, were surreal in the eerie way much of the immediate post-pandemic felt—(post-)apocalyptic yet distant. We paired this video with a soundtrack of singing bowls and voices recorded in an abandoned train tunnel.
