Waste Scenes (2024)
two channel video (40:39)
collaboration with Fred Schmidt-Arenales
exhibited variously (see below)
Waste Scenes is a two channel video installation created while in residence at RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) in Philadelphia, which is situated in an operating construction and demolition recycling facility. The work juxtaposes original footage of performances based on found texts, observational footage shot onsite, and digitized found media sourced from the waste stream (including books, VHS tapes, Audio Cassettes, Vinyl, and Super 8 film). Composed from the material and ideological detritus of the post-industrial northern U.S., the film reckons with failed neoliberal visions of the good life set against the waste it has produced.
Press
→ "Bronx Calling Is All About Knowledge and Agency" Hyperallergic
→ "Between Trash and Treasure at Oregon Contemporary" Oregon Arts Watch
Exhibitions
→ Smack Mellon, Remains to be Seen curated by Pallavi Surana
→ Boston Center for the Arts, Waste Scenes curated by Laurel McLaughlin
→ Oregon Contemporary, Waste Scenes curated by Laurel McLaughlin
→ Bronx Museum, Bronx Calling curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch
→ Vox Populi Gallery, Waste Scenes
Directed by Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales
Edited by Chelsea Knight with additional editing by Fred Schmidt-Arenales and Maia Chao
Cinematography: Ty Burdenski and Catching on Thieves
Additional Cinematography: Melissa Langer, Maia Chao, Fred Schmidt-Arenales
Location Sound: Catching on Thieves, Ky Cooper, Fred Schmidt-Arenales
Featuring: Dan Schwartz, Parker Sera, Bellisant Corcoran-Mathe, Philadelphia Voices of Pride
Color Correction: Ben Neufeld
Sound Mix: Hans Hansdale
Funded By: The Velocity Fund, Illuminate the Arts, Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
Produced while in residence at Recycled Artist in Residence (RAIR)
Thank you: Mehgan Abdel-Moneim, Judith Belmont, Henry Bradley, Blanche Brown, Andy Davis, Eliza Doyle, Anna Drozdowski, Billy Dufala, Julia Gladstone, Jenna Horton, Anne Lukins, Leslie Miller, Ryan Pater, Netta Sadovsky, Randy Shine, Alexa West
Install photos: Mario Gallucci at Oregon Contemporary
Programming: Boston Center for the Arts performance with Erik DeLuca and Mobius Artists Group performers Jimena Bermejo and Sara June
