Recording Field Level 5 was an immersive video installation exhibited at Platform Gallery, Seattle, Washington intended to act as a dystopic science fiction story about the merging of plant and flesh and the study and understanding of nature (all set to a “glitchtronica” sound track).
Each work or series in the exhibition (of which there are five: Nature Watching/The Pink Wall, Land, Earthbound, recodingfieldlevel5, and Mobile Works) acts as both an individual chapter in the story and a necessary part of the whole. Any one piece can be investigated separately or combined to create the sci-fi-is-now world of Field Level 5
Recording Field Level 5, installation view, 2005, variable dimensions
Earthbound no. 1, 2005, Plastic storage container, tree stump, “good”/”evil” foam finger on revolving motor, blue light, obsidian, florescent light, house plants, wood, boom boxes playing glitchtronica from The Sense of Another Dimension, Variable Dimensions
Earthbound no. 2, 2005, Plastic storage containers, 70’s modular picnic basket, novelty skunk lamp, green nylon cloth, rain water, Metro bus wheel wedge, wood, metal, Sintra, boom boxes playing glitchtronica from The Sense of Another Dimension, Variable Dimensions
Here We Don’t Make The Things But Make The Things That Make The Things (Earthbound no. 4), 2005, Styrofoam, rabbit fur, wood, florescent light, houseplants, still from Land, Plexi, Sintra, plexi vitrine, Variable Dimensions
