RABBIT ISLAND
2016

Collaborators: Mary Welcome, Jack Forinash
http://rabbitisland.org

After five years of works and research, Rabbit Island been well documented: where land meets water, where land meets the sky. Through a competitive call for artists, we werechosen as artist-in-residence on Rabbit Island, a remote island in Lake Superior. We spent our island time living in and listening to the gaps. Buoys track quantifiable weather: humidity, pressure, and wind. 

We were human buoys tracking incidental and ephemeral data. Our collaborative process of looking, listening, and translating is represented so that someoneelse can root themselves into that ever-present moment of flux and feeling. From our research, we produced a series of new living portraits of this place: stopping not at the water’s edge but continuing until a new extent is discovered; anti-data based in experience and feelings; island-sized recordings; circumambulations of the island from water and sections cut by foot. Like a landscape, our practice shifts, erodes, accumulates, and accommodates the shape of more considered futures.

Images from: This Island is Loud; Rabbit Island, Lake Superior, Michigan. 2016 University of Northern Michigan (Marquette)


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