Composite Fields

2016

Audiovisual Installation

Installation view, Doris McCarthy Gallery, photo: Toni Hafkenscheid

Collaborator: taisha paggett
Materials: Three channel video (color, sound), three projectors, speakers, three media players
Dimensions: 3 x 17 ft. / 91.5 x 518.25 cm
Duration: 23 min 24 sec

Composite Fields is an audiovisual installation by Yann Novak and taisha paggett created with the documentation from the three performances of A Composite Field. The piece further explores their use of sensory materials as objects to be manipulated, re-framed and re-contextualized.

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A Composite Field

2012

Audiovisual Performance

MAK Center Mackey Garage Top, photo: Tim Stark, Robert Crouch

Collaborator: taisha paggett
Materials: Live video (color, silent), live stereo sound, P.A. system, computer, midi controller
Dimensions: 25 x 10 x 10 ft. / 762 x 304.75 x 304.75 cm
Duration: 25 min

In A Composite Field, Yann Novak and Taisha Paggett create a site-specific performance based on the MAK Center’s Mackey Garage Top. Incorporating sound, movement and projected light in three intimate performances over the course of one evening, their collaboration takes up sensory materials as objects to be manipulated, re-framed and re-contextualized. Novak utilizes sound recordings from the Mackey Garage Top as a point of departure. These recordings are then digitally altered to emphasize the unique characteristics of the space itself. Drawing on her ongoing interest in the cultural process of vision, seeing and being seen, Paggett constructs and performs a chain of actions inspired by the layered organic and artificial elements of both the space and the sound.

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Related Recordings & Publications

3 Renditions

2013

Album

Label: Yann Novak Studio
Catalog No.: YNS005
Format: Digital
Duration: 58 min 30 sec

Music for Restaurants – Originally performed as part of Fallen Fruit’s ‘Let Them Eat LACMA’ at LACMA (Los Angeles CA), November 7, 2010. Curated by Fallen Fruit.

A Composite Field – Originally performed as part of ‘A Composite Field’, a collaboration with Taisha Paggett at the MAK Center’s Mackey Garage Top (Los Angeles CA), January 20, 2012. Curated by Dino Dinco.

Still Life – Originally performed as part of ‘Private Time: 4 Episodes’ as a collaboration with video artist Linda Konone at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles CA), November 7, 2012. Curated by Zane Datava.

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