Video, 3-channel rackmount monitor
22 hrs, 39 min.
3 ½ x 19 x 4 ½ inches (8.89 x 48.26 x 11.43 cm)
“Journey From North to South” (2024) is a road movie configured on a 3-channel rackmount monitor, filmed through interstates over a 22-hour long drive southward. Partly tracing the Mississippi delta, the car takes a brief detour in a Chinese cemetery in Greenville and ends in Biloxi. While a 3-channel rackmount monitor is typically used in news vans or television station control rooms, the machine suggests a view of a video feed in progress or live in the making. Intuitively, the viewer may shift their gaze from one channel to another, cutting between these scenes showing two different views of the road. “///” in the center channel is a constant, its placement and symbol evocative of the filmic cut. Impossible to watch in its entirety, scenes described, such as the Chinese cemetery in Greenville and the finale in Biloxi, can only be held in the imagination for the passerby viewer. Day and night unfolds.
Originally presented at Maxwell Graham in the 2024 solo exhibition “Technical Difficulties,” the video sculpture work is a twinned work with the 33-minute short film, “A Child Already Knows” (2024). A play on genre films through a durational, slow chase scene, “Journey from North to South” reenacts a southward escape––its title evocative of the epics of wuxia (martial arts) cinema.
Originally shown at Maxwell Graham Gallery May 1 - June 22, 2024, as part of a solo exhibition titled, "Technical Difficulties."
