This audiovisual performance transforms video feedback into both sight and sound through an analog-digital feedback loop. Using a vintage camcorder aimed at a CRT television, the artist generates evolving feedback patterns. The video signal is simultaneously diverted to audio inputs—visual information literally becomes… ⊕

This is a video which documents one iteration of Leena Raudvee’s performance of Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair. Raudvee’s voice reads her score for a disabled body as she struggles to sit down and get up again from a chair. Leena Raudvee stands in front of a chair facing the camera. A… ⊕

This is a video which documents a performance of Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair, including the making of a drawing as response. Leena Raudvee performs the act of sitting down and getting up again with her disabled body and then draws the internal echoes of these efforts on a large sheet of mylar… ⊕

What starts out as a short nature documentary inspired by the mating sounds of male wood frogs in a southern Ontario forest, slowly reveals itself to touch on the fragility of life, the cycle of the seasons, the wonder of the natural world, and, in an echo of the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ maxim that you… ⊕

 A young woman (my sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma) dances on a subway platform to music only she can hear. As we watch her move through this public space with unselfconscious expression, we hear her thoughts on the vulnerability of dancing in front of others, the poetry of interacting with strangers, and the wonder of… ⊕