Showing "Truce" - Baltimore, MD

This weekend, our video installation Truce opens at One Charles Center (at the corner of Charles and Fayette) as part of the 2019 Janet & Walter Sondheim Semifinalist Exhibition. The installation consists of many individual components that we use to prod at the frustration, processing, and introspection inherent in coming to a truce.
The ingredients:

• A 2-channel screen dance with individual audio coming from headphones
• Immersive audio playing on speakers throughout the entire installation
• 3 astroturf squares on the floor
• 2 orange costumes on either side of the installation stretched taught toward and away from each other
• A 10ft x 10ft square made up of strips of orange fabric tied together coming out of the wall and landing on the floor about 8 feet from the corner

Each video is accompanied by a voiceover that reveals the internal perspective of one person in a conflict. In other words, it reveals only half of the story. Viewers experience one point of view and then the other. They hear the ways in which the two sides talk past each other, find points of agreement, disagree, and walk away.

​For example, a few lines from POV 1 include:
I don’t know how they justify what they did.
I’m not trying to say that there is a right thing to do, but isn’t there?
It's not personal.

Meanwhile, POV 2 is saying:
They can explain anything away.
I’m not trying to say that everything is relative, but isn’t it?
Everything is personal.

The ambient audio in the space is both tracks playing at once, literally speaking over each other. 

The show will be open Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm from now until August 18. Come stand on our astroturf and watch us move through conflict without finding resolution. After the installation closes, we will be posting the videos online.