Saha: The Book of Earth Mediums (2023)
Premiered at the 2023 Buffalo International Film Festival, Saha: The Book of Earth Mediums, is an experimental video made in collaboration with Leonard Atawugeh Kubaloe, in Tamale, an industrializing city in northern Ghana. Saha, a Dagbani word meaning “time” and “luck”, presents four vignettes exploring alternative formulations of media cultures in northern Ghana, including shea oil light fuel, “Kayayo” women, and juju (Ghanaian magic). The video argues for a naturecultural lens of media art, specifically that media art practices occur outside of the sphere of Western binary conceptions of nature and culture. Saha explores an embodied relation to these media practices that emerge from being embedded in their context.
Signal Works (2017)
Signal Works explores repetition in analog and digital bodies. Working through habitual gestures and flows, Signal Works concerns itself with the production of meaning that emerges from the representation of repeated movement and embodiment. How do pixels and particles flow through different spaces? What happens when common movement breaks down and common meaning disappears? How do these processes relate through digital and analog space? How can water be used as a tool to think through material information flows?
Signal Works features the following artists: transmedia composer and artist, Andrew Blanton, sourceless video artist, Andy Puls, composer and net artist, Gavin Gamboa, and cellular biologist, Breanne Sparta. Music composition is by systemritual (Elia Vargas and Nathan Blaz). It features dancers: Sophia Wang, Justin Hoover, Micah Morris, Shimeko, and Joshua Batson.