Reduced Oxygen
INSTALLATION | LOOPED | 1:52 MIN | 2019
This public art installation explores how U.S. media often deny or downplay ongoing ecological and humanitarian crises, reinforcing anti-science narratives that distort reality and mislead the public.. One of the film projections presents an illusion of perfection, achieved through deliberate image manipulation. In contrast, the opposing projection reveals a world in perpetual disorder, where humanity grapples with its shortcomings amid the stark realities of a changing planet.
This public video installation shows two distinct and peripheral perceptions (realities) of two scenes. One of these projections depicts a clear blue sky next to a dancer in a perpetual fouetté turn, while the other portrays a sky interrupted by harsh waves of wildfire next to a dancer attempting to execute the fouetté turn, but frequently falling out of it.
If you look closely at each video, you can see that the two projections derive from the same footage, however, in one of them, a blue sky has been added to mask the smoke and a short excerpt of the dancer’s turn has been looped to present a falsified image of perfection.
