Video installation with sculptural sound object, performance and photographs
2019 - 2020
Black Diamond Coal Mine, California
On the solubility of gold is a video and sound performance involving multiple iterations of a found piece of lignite (a type of low grade coal). The video shows the lignite artifact as a digital replica in augmented reality on a waste pile outside of the coal mine and with a physically constructed virtual reality backdrop. The work explores digital alchemy and the subsequent transformations the artifact endures as an analogy for environmental estrangement through geological extraction.
Lignite
Erosion
Scaling
Stope Blast
Created while in residence at Xenoform Labs, San Francisco, USA.