edge waves, video still.
Single-channel video with sound, TRT: 14:18.
Collaboration with Marina Peterson
edge waves incorporates video, electromagnetic recordings, and text to explore the ghostly space around a football stadium during the pandemic. Employing a visual triptych, the film plays with that which is present in a space of absence – a tiny insect crawling across the asphalt, the sky, trees, birds roosting in the eaves of a hulking stadium, while simultaneously evoking the human comings and goings that ordinarily transpire in and frame the space. A crowded parking lot, tailgating, fandom, and team rivalries lurk at the edge of what is seen. The interplay of presence and absence is further complicated by the static buzz, clicks, and subtle rhythms of electromagnetic frequencies made audible through transduction. In a moment of temporary suspension, the built environment feels charged with traces, gaps, and echoes of human amidst more-than-human presences and flows.
JENA SEILER 