on the 13th February, at the culmination of his early 2014 artist residency at RM Gallery in Auckland, I embarked upon an audio/visual performance collaboration with filmmaker and moving image artist Campbell Walker, called anxious repetitive smiling (nothing's going to happen), in which in-camera audio from his month long gathering of visual fragments in Auckland spaces was expanded within the screening as a transmission piece, a live improvisational score. Text from William Gaddis’ novel The Recognitions, spoken by Walker, was additionally harnessed within an autofictional depiction which literally reflected back in windows as a noir cityscape. The screening space in the gallery added additional light bleed and environmental screen space via its nightlit windows and analogous sonic structural openness.
images by Matthew Ward
