A one-night public performance that is the culmination of research conducted by ECU students Leonor Martinez and miranda firmston in the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archive (CDMLA) at VIVO Media Arts Centre.
In an archive, the veil between moments in time wears palpably thin. Working amongst the boxes of the CDMLA, miranda firmston and Leonor Martinez learned to feel this veil and set out to render through performance, sound and text, the complex existence of VIVO as an archiving entity that continues to grow and shape unto itself as it has done for the last fifty years.
Prioritizing passages from what the artists regard as the hidden scaffolding of the archive—the logbooks and correspondence files found in the CDMLA—their text will be spoken and its sound, passing through custom-made audio control appendages and interfaces, will repeat, re-form, warp, deteriorate and change itself through time as the artists move and interact in space.
This self-fulfilling digital system models the patterns that transform the archive as it lives and breathes at the hands of those who pass through.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Performance begins at 7:00pm, followed by a Q&A. This event is free but please RSVP.