SEEK is an expanded film that deploys layering and camouflage to invite audiences to interactively “seek” in both the literal and philosophical sense through quantum listening and perceiving. SEEK is intended to challenge sensory perception and imagination to prompt deeper engagement with the earth’s imperiled biosphere. SEEK asks what might be hidden in plain sight, and what might an unconstrained human imagination discover in the gaps. By focusing on our collective interdependence on and in fragile ecosystems, SEEK prompts considerations of how we might develop new forms of cognition to move through the world more attentively. Filmic collage provides a layered, multi-spatial– almost quantum interface through which one can explore themes of discovery, integration/distinction, simultaneity, and revelation. Part of what inspired the work is the current technologically mediated condition of not being encouraged to rely on our own embodied, sensory intelligence (or “embrainment”) as we encounter the world around us. By dissolving the screen interface, SEEK shifts the self-centered lens outward, inviting viewers to “disappear” together into a chameleonic shared reality, and underscoring our collective interdependence.
Premieres at Cosm Los Angeles, July 2024. Tickets available here.
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