Untitled (Chamber, Image, Panel, Other Lights), 2024 documentation by Kensaku Shinohara
Maquette of “Chamber”
I spent time trying to find an affordable tree shaker. Maybe for rent. A machine that attaches to a tree (which bears some fruit) and intentionally vibrates the tree, shaking off the fruit. TO SHAKE OFF. Olives. Or Cherries. The fruit is usually collected in a large tarp encircling the tree. On the ground, below its branches.
As the chamber nears the edge of the stage, unconscious as an object is said to be, it is neither exercising nor avoiding its will. The motor drives the object without intention. Direction, in this case, limited to basic degrees of on- or off- stage. The image attempts to split the surface of the panel. The panel still carries it. Humiliating the wall and the projector. The image, re-presents sitting as/with an object in a room. The other lights made me stop. Decay, an evolution against their imprisonment.
UNTITLED (CHAMBER, PANEL, IMAGE, OTHER LIGHTS), 2024, was supported by a residency at PIETER Performance Space and a West Hollywood Queer Artist Grant.
At the foot of the stage a two channel video plays on two monitors, each screening 20 minutes of one minute long videos of lights malfunctioning in Los Angeles. A tilted panel is the screen for a single channel video of 21 minutes of footage taken at MoCA documenting people passing by Felix Gonzalez-Torres’, Untitled (Last Light), 1994, and a 6 foot chamber shakes diatomaceous earth from its upper portion and very slowly moves across the stage. (All Funding from the WeHo Queer Artist Grant was reallocated to The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine.)