“Tennis Club would make people laugh, we hoped; it would get them excited, would pose questions, would invite the world to take us in and keep us in some semblance of our wished-for artistic community.”
Contemporary art
The second in a series of texts reflecting on moments that nourish, energize, and sustain artistic practice.
An extended sound work: contact microphones, tactile transducer, stereo receiver, guitar strings, plate metal, pot lid, bar clamps, spring clamps, fm/am 2-band receivers, analog delay, ‘big muff’ fuzz/distortion, max/msp, hairbrush.
Time, depending on who you are, where you are, and when you are, can mean many different things. Time is a unit of measure. Time is an experience. Time is saved. Time is spent. Time is wasted. Time is money. Time flies. Or it drags on. Time is a construct, a concept, a currency. Time is attention. Time is value. And for some, time is a medium.
Reflections on Freedom of Movement was initiated by artist Rehab Nazzal in response to an invitation by BlackFlash Expanded in the summer of 2022.
A collection of stories shared in response to the Reflections on Freedom of Movement collective discussions.
A digital comic made in response to the Reflections on Freedom of Movement collective discussions.
A room in Reims / غرفة في ريمس was made in response to the Reflections on Freedom of Movement collective discussions.
It’s about existing,
………………… standing in an anomaly, ……………..……………………………… and surviving.
Made in response to the Reflections on Freedom of Movement collective discussions.
“Each night, movie attendees gather on the shoreline to watch the beach films, projected on an eleven-meter screen erected directly in the lake. Viewers dig themselves makeshift seats in the sand. Feasting mosquitos gather. Waves lap. Frogs chirp. Credits roll.”
On the Neon Horizon is a short video essay that takes one of the world-building tics of white science fiction — gratuitous signage in Asian languages — to consider its utopian potential and dystopian applications.