WHat people are saying about the unfixing
Jack Waters, Co-Founder Allied Productions, Inc.
Grace Sokolow, College Student studying Geography and Environmental Issues
Jack Waters, Co-Founder Allied Productions, Inc.
"Truly AMAZING! Congratulations on this deeply moving creative action whose expression is now embedded in our hearts, the soil, and the surrounding nature of this urban environment!"
Joanna Macy, Ph.D, author & teacher
Grace Sokolow, College Student studying Geography and Environmental Issues
Jack Waters, Co-Founder Allied Productions, Inc.
”The installation you are making is like nothing I have seen. It needs to be taken to every city.”
Andrew Dolan, Electric Ladybug Community Garden Member
Grace Sokolow, College Student studying Geography and Environmental Issues
Grace Sokolow, College Student studying Geography and Environmental Issues
"I got lost in it in a way that allowed me to take/make my own journey, prompted, inspired by the images and sound. As I looped between the installations, I found new images as new north stars and set off. It was a unique thrill."
Grace Sokolow, College Student studying Geography and Environmental Issues
Grace Sokolow, College Student studying Geography and Environmental Issues
Grace Sokolow, College Student studying Geography and Environmental Issues
"The idea of remembrance made me feel the loss of species and ecosystems more acutely than I ever have before. Placing my flower among the candles forced me to reckon with the reality of the situation, of the grief,"
A video and sound installation
We need this now
We live in a time of unfathomable loss to our natural world and we are reeling from chronic illness and lost loved ones from the pandemic. Bring us to your community and we will gather among the trees to honor what we have lost and to connect with the regenerative power of the Earth. We are adapting the installation for each unique location.
Summary
An interactive site-specific video and sound installation by Nicole Betancourt and Bray Poor with Video Engineer Jeremy Allen exploring the interconnection of the human body and the Earth through the experiences of loss and illness. Grieving for the ravages of climate change, like grieving for lost abilities with a chronic illness, is ongoing and often involves fears about an uncertain future. “Unfixing” refers to moving out of a fixed position created by fear as a reaction to pain – a shift in perspective allowing pain, but also wonder and connection.
TEAM
Video Artist: Nicole Betancourt
Sound Artist: Bray Poor
Video Engineer: Jeremy Allen
Associate Producer: Kyrie McCormick, Liza Miller
Advisor: Juan Carlos Zaldívar
Graphic Designer: Liza Miller
As you move around the space, the soundscapes CHANGES - scroll to the right
MEMORIAL OVER WATER
Video projected on a screen suspended over a pond and a sound installation. Video includes images of various landscapes and a memorial the artist built and filmed in a burnt forest.
LAYING DOWN LOOKING UP
8-minute film and immersive sound installation to be experienced laying down on cots, looking up. At The Green Oasis Community Garden we projected onto the ceiling of their gazebo.
MEMORIAL IN A GARDEN
A memorial to the diverse life on earth that is dying because of climate disaster, human consumption, and waste. The memorial is an invitation to bear witness and to bring an offering of a flower placed on the earth (flower provided).
TREES
A year in Central Park passes over the course of an hour. Trees viewed from the perspective of illness - laying down. Branches are a fractal.
BED
A body confined in bed, losing days and abilities. Projected onto bed sheets, a six-minute video of Nicole's isolation over her seven years with a debilitating chronic illness, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). Isolation becomes an initiation to a deeper understanding of allowing, listening, and receiving as expressed in the landscape.
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