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CREDITS

Georgie Friedman

  1. • All filming, editing, and audio recording

  2. • Video mapping and sound spatialization

  3. • Sculpture design and partial fabrication

Sculptural bases and installation assistance: Patrick Goguen

Spatial sound technician: Sam Feine

Water-system switch programming and design input: Mike Beach

Cone sculpture sewing: Rae Occhipinti & Hope Zimmerman

Additional equipment, production, and exhibition support generously donated by Artisans Asylum members and friends of the artist.

This project was hosted and supported by the Artisans Asylum Visiting Artist in Residence Program.

 

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A sculptural, ten-channel video,

spatial sound, and water installation:

8 conical sculptures (3 drip water)

3 sculptural water-collection bases

10 projectors: videos, 6-10:30 min loops

15 speakers spatial sound design

Water-drip system

2025


DESCRIPTION

Visitors enter the darkened gallery and find eight hanging sculptures glowing with video imagery of various dripping substances ranging in color, texture, transparency, and speed. To extend the video-dripping, actual water drips out of the bottom of three sculptures, into caldera-like floor bases. The sculptures vary in size, from 2 to over 8 feet tall, with their tops starting at 6 to 10.5 feet above the ground, some dwarfing viewers.


The sound of the water dripping from the sculptures mixes with a range of pre-recorded drips that emanate from floor and ceiling speakers all around the gallery. The spatial sound technology simulates real distances in space from the viewer, auditorily expanding the scale of the environment.


The darkened atmosphere, mixed with the close and echoing dripping sounds, and observing the mesmerizing paths of the various substances, helps people to slow down.


This installation is not trying to create a realistic cave, but rather a metaphoric space that connects human experiences to larger elemental properties.

 

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STATEMENT

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Dissolution

  1. •the action or process of dissolving or being dissolved: minerals susceptible to dissolution.

  2. •the closing down or dismissal of an assembly, partnership, or official body: the dissolution of the legislature.

  3. •disintegration; decomposition: the dissolution of the flesh.

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As the old adage goes, “The only constant is change…"

At times we may feel like everything is disintegrating around us: morphing from solid and known to murky and unmapped. However, we know that change happens in continual cycles. Decay to growth. Stones dam streams, forming lakes, while water erodes rock and soil, carving out rivers and valleys.

For this installation, I wanted to create a quiet, subterranean-like atmosphere. The dripping water and viscous imagery reference liquids that transform matter between states, dissolving or building mass over time, like icicles, stalactites, amber, etc. This installation can be a refuge from the world, a place to quiet the mind and body, and a contemplative space to consider how elements, and our lives, change and transform. 

Even when life feels like it is deteriorating into unknowable and uncomfortable forms, how can this dissolution also feed growth, change, and new life?

Dissolution full video documentation forthcoming: Video previews on Instagram | Subscribe for video announcements Vimeo | YouTube

MATERIALS & Dimensions


Hanging sculptures

Fabric, tubing, metal, wood, wire

Heights: 2' - 8' 2"

Top diameters: 8" - 16"

Bottom diameters: 2" - 4"


Base sculptures

Plaster, metal bowls

Heights: ~ 9"

Top diameters: ~14"

Bottom diameters: ~ 36"


WATER SYSTEM

Upper and lower water tanks

Water pump

Water circulator

UV water filter

Hoses and tubing

Drip speed valves

Float switches: low/high water sensors; water pump refill


Site: 23 ft x 28 ft with 15 ft ceilings