Geoflexicon Project Description
Currents 2020
Sara Schneckloth and Cary Brooks
Evoking a Southwestern slot canyon, Geoflexicon provides an immersive visual and physical experience as participants walk through an 8’x10’ narrow passage comprised of two touchable Spandex screens. Video footage is projected on both sides of the structure, moving images that integrate low-altitude drone footage from the San Juan Basin badlands with animated topographical drawings of these same landforms. Viewers are encouraged to manipulate the screens from inside and out, as they make their way through the constricted space of the tunnel, moving in concert with the projected shifting images and with each other.
A version of installation has been mounted successfully in Columbia, SC, with different video content (as Through Flesh and Stone, Schneckloth, 2016); it would be shown at Currents 2020 on a smaller physical scale (8x10’ vs 12x20’) with newly edited content unique to the landscape of Northern New Mexico, crafted by Schneckloth and Brooks in 2019-2020.
Copyright of video footage Cary Brooks 2019
Copyright of drawings and installation Sara Schneckloth 2019
