The screen is revealed, pulls away from itself, multiplies and then falls down. Sound becomes a black scrim, as the body is absorbed and abandoned. An ocean of cars bleed into a sax solo soundtrack, the movie, as it is being made is also being digested, spit out. Within this recomposition there references for a brief moment an empty emotional construction, an emblematic trope of cinema. It is pathetic, what is behind, as much as it reveals its own making, it never fully comes into being. Sound and image exist in a tenuous state of suspension and collapse.

 

Math Bass is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She has performed, screened and exhibited at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA, 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, CA, Montehermoso Cultural Centre, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Leo Koening Inc. Projekte, NYC, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, Artist Production Fund, NYC, Art in General, NYC, REDCAT Theatre Los Angeles, CA, Anthology film Archives, NYC, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Participant inc. NYC, among others. She received her MFA from UCLA in 2011 and her BA from Hampshire College in 2003. 

 

Math Bass

BUT BEHIND

2012

HD video, 5 minutes

 

Credits

Writer, Editor, Director - Math Bass

Camera - Mariah Garnett

Sax - Zumi Rosow

 

 

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