ALIAS

ALIAS (2018, 17:49)

ALIAS focuses on a characteristic distortion of sampled images—Aliasing—where one grid fails to cleanly capture another, and separate entities become indistinguishable. One form ingesting another, a parasite larger than its host: ALIAS is a story about solar energy, ruined by observation.

solar rays reached the surface without meaning

depending on the day
the observer melts exactly where the sun rises

the heavy sun tethers to hangers-on
throws them counter-clockwise

the northern axis points in the direction
no one yields

colors de-saturate in the dark

a cylindrical projection graphs the sun
rolled for an eye to look through

feel what happened to the horizon after the fires

we need to take all that we can, read the azimuth, and run

when the sun flickers, time abolishes pleasing positions

Sarah Rara

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Sarah Rara’s multi-disciplinary practice— including video, sound, performance, and writing— explores the position of witness within fragile systems. Their work in sound and moving image considers gender, queerness, technology, disability, and illness, in connection with environmental research. Regarding the environment as relational and invested with notions of identity, Sarah Rara’s work considers the socio-political and personal dimensions of sensing technologies. They are a primary organizer of the ongoing project lucky dragons. Their work, solo and in collaboration, has been presented at such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), the Hammer Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, London’s Institute for Contemporary Art, PS1 in New York, REDCAT and Human Resources in Los Angeles, MOCA Los Angeles, the 54th Venice Biennale, Documenta 14 in Athens, and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. Rara is a 2018 recipient of the LACMA Art + Technology fellowship and current artist-in-residence at Bangkok 1899, Bangkok, Thailand. Rara is Assistant Professor of Moving Image at Williams College.

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