choreographies of becoming ( a film )
site-sensitive installation with 16mm projectors, celluloid film, dual front/rear projection screen
75 feet of celluloid film, looping to failure (7 days)
2026
choreographies of becoming ( a film ) is a site-sensitive installation and durational performance with 16mm film. I position the filmic apparatus – the celluloid film, projectors, light, and screen-surface – as a composite, complex, and interconnected body, as an organism, and as a performer. Through the interwoven, looping bodies of projector, film, screen, and shadow, this installation contends with how we hold memory: in movement, in muscle, in celluloid, in textile, in our (interconnected) bodies.
Exhibited at the UCSD Visual Arts Facilities Performance Space
La Jolla, CA
April 2026
Installation view (macro).
Documentation by Allison Olivia Evans.
Aerial view floorplan/installation layout
Installation layout (lateral view)
This chapbook was produced as a companion to the installation of the same name. Each page is collaged by hand, printed on risograph, and folded, cut, and bound by the artist.