There is an endless desire to know what we look like from outer space and we have evolved into communities that exist across the disorienting spaces and timeframes of virtuality. I wonder what we really look like together, entangled with natural systems and processes, no matter the separation.
Within my current work, dance and simple pedestrian scores act as a language for collecting knowledge and inscribing memory. Moving makes a map and performing is observing. Through this language I create videos, installations, books and performances in which cooperative choreographies for strangers evolve into humorous cellular organizations. Digital mediations translate bodies into uncanny organisms. A collection of house dust from friends mineralizes into falling choreographies of meteorites. Craigslist-ed research about San Francisco’s disappeared sand dunes shifts into a story about the changing nature of human relations and collectivity.
As every last landscape is mapped and measured, through technologies of ever increasing distance, I look for the ways that my questions can mineralize into collective memories and embodied systems of observation. By transposing human, natural and technological systems upon one another I map and construct patterns of closeness and distance amongst people.
contact:
reneerhodes at gmail dot com