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Sunday, April 15
Admission: $5, $10 Minimum
Doortime: 8pm
reservations
are recommended
Navajo Radio is a two-channel video installation, playing on opposing
walls of the room. The video documents a drive through Navajo
Nation and the accompanying radio signal for KTNN, the leading
Navajo station. As the landscape becomes more topographically
and colorfully dynamic, the radio signal becomes increasingly
less clear. Eventually, flat stretches are punctuated by rock
formations and dramatic skies. Finally, the landscape is abstracted
into color fields of orange, red and blue. As the imagery develops,
the radio signal becomes radio static. Distinct tones start to
emerge from the static until the sound becomes musical.
This piece aims to take a finite landscape, one that is defined
by geographical limitations, and abstract its sound and image.
By abstracting the landscape, we lose the political delineations
of the Navajo reservation, and by abstracting the sound, we lose
the conformity of the radio format. The video highlights how the
aestheticization of landscape disassociates the viewer from the
political realities of their environment.
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