Isolated Field Recording Series: LoVid - "April"
Wednesday, June 10th at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to stream April, a new piece from interdisciplinary artist duo LoVid. The piece is part of the Isolated Field Recording Series, commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time.
WARNING: This video contains fast flicker and stroboscopic effects that may potentially trigger photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
Note from LoVid on April
“Time feels different now. stretching and folding. We feel the Present louder. The NOW is vaster and we are surviving within it, reassuring our children while remaining close to the truth of uncertainty.
It is inescapable. The words GLOBAL/// CRISIS /// are scientific and personal. They melt in our chests - we wake up to them and fall asleep with them. At sunrise we hold onto facts, routines, shipping orders, and recipes. At night it can seem like one large existential metaphor.
We repeat the same highly localized walks.
We are conflicted by the comfort of natural beauty and question our place within it.
We are invaders, observers, maintainers. The cities are burning and American Suburbia is anxious; flickering between boredom, isolation, fractured realities, daydreams, gratitude, and sprouting visions for a new era/generation.
The images in this recording were filmed in April (2020) with a temporospatial camera custom-made by Douglas Repetto. The sound was recorded in our home-studio at C Flickering with our handmade synthesizers.
Blast this noise and flicker set for ruptured times!”
If you are in a position to do so, LoVid has asked all donations during the event be directed to ERASE Racism.
LoVid, the NY based artist duo comprised of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus, LoVid's work includes immersive installations, sculptural synthesizers, single channel videos, tapestries, stained glass, participatory projects, mobile media cinema, works on paper, and multimedia performance. Collaborating since 2001, LoVid’s work has been exhibited, performed, screened, and presented internationally among others at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, And/Or Gallery, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Real Art Ways, Good Children Gallery, BRIC, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Parrish Museum, Issue Project Room, Mixed Greens Gallery, The Science Gallery Dublin, The Jewish Museum, MoMA, Lampo (Chicago), Tectonics Festival TLV, The Kitchen, Moving Image Art Fair, Daejeon Museum (Korea), Smack Mellon, Netherland Media Art Institute (Netherlands), New Museum (NY), ICA (London), and International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands). LoVid’s projects have received support from organizations including: Wave Hill, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Graham Foundation, UC Santa Barbara, Signal Culture, Cue Art Foundation, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, Wave Farm, Rhizome, Franklin Furnace, Turbulence.org, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Experimental TV Center, NY State Council of the Arts, and Greenwall Foundation.
