WINDOWED ROOM: A stage-like platform overlooks a dimensional picture plane: six glowing windows at the far end of the enormous room with a forest of tarnished, wooden columns in-between. Utilizing two 90-foot faux walls positioned at a forced perspective and nine faux columns scattered within, the windows appear farther away than they are. A real-time sound installation is audible at the glowing windows, echoing a cacophony of footsteps recorded minutes ago from beneath the platform, snippets of dialogue from our travels between Buffalo and Brooklyn, and a simple guitar solo.
WHITE ROOM: Here, the only sources of light are videos playing on projection screens leaning, like cumbersome paintings, in an expanded cube formation. As projections flicker, the room slowly reveals itself. As viewers' wander, bodies block the projections, their shadows mingling with those of the towering columns. With composite weaves of local performances, research documentation, and play in and around Buffalo since the onsite of this project, the videos explore Brace and Leduc’s processes of acquaintance with the city, inclusive of relationships with our families, each other, and ourselves.
