Site-specific 18-minute performance and multi-video installation
Sesquicentennial Park, Houston, Texas
Commissioned by Aurora Picture Show
Katie Loff, soprano
November 9th, 2019
The performance includes three 5-minute videos created by Allison Hunter, depicting natural bodies of calm waterways, waterfalls, and abstracted images based on waves sequentially projected onto stairs, a screen surrounded by rocks, and a bridge wall choreographed in sync to original music by Jake Sandridge. Vocalist Katie Loff leads the audience through the dark with a lantern. Before and after the performance, all three areas displayed looping videos. (The video on the stairs depicts close-ups of rain drops hitting a rooftop. The video on the screen displays storm clouds and close-ups of rain landing on asphalt. The video on the wall depicts the life-sized singer holding a lantern while her dress sways. Her figure is superimposed on a close-up shot of rainwater beating the ground, which is layered over another shot of rain falling on tree branches.) These videos accompany Sandridge’s soundtrack of steady rainfall. Almost all sound in the electronics are sourced from water samples.