XTINA3000 AND FRIENDS: A CATASEISMIC BLAST AND MUSICAL OFFERING
Christina McPhee brings new immersive landscape/animation films to FiveMyles, all created in collaboration with composers and musicians, including Julie Herndon, Ashon Crawley, and Carolyn Yarnell. All works are created in the period 2021-23.
In stereo audio and 4k/HD video, this program is 51 minutes, no intermission.
DAL NIENTE, with Julie Herndon, 10 minutes, 2023 (premiere)
LOVE GOD, with Carolyn Yarnell, 8 minutes, 2022
YES! LORD PARADISE REMIX, with Ashon Crawley, 33 minutes, 2021
Julie Herndon: “In the gaps between old patterns and new ones...a world began to emerge…” Dal Niente is a coastal meditation along the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary. Within Carolyn Yarnell’s pavanne, Love God, pianist Tomoko Yazawa crashes a dense compilation of video field notes in California’s desert and seismic landscapes. Pamela Z and Christina McPhee keep on Breathing in a song from Carbon Song Cycle, most recently performed at the San Francisco Exploratorium last August. Yes! Lord Paradise Remix plays through the joy of ‘otherwise possibility’ as Ashon Crawley’s ensemble Black gospel performance counterpoints Steve Reich’s classic Music for 18 Musicians, while animations emulate hummingbirds, flying home on sugar, desire, and yes.
About the moving image: Christina McPhee makes braided, textured, and layered works through an engagement with a more-than-human cosmology, in drawing, painting, photomontage and video. “One gets the sense that the image conjured up is all at once a particular, individual, material composite (colored ink, graphite, paper, the skies of a hand) and a precarious, temporary, expression of forces for which no adequate, human language exists...Thanks to video, the promise and desperation of these sites—their striving— can be ‘condensed,’ ‘extracted,’ and reanimated. This is a distinctively futurist form of eco-sensitivity, a state of affective engagement...” Ina Blom, Mineral Belief (2017).
About the music:Yes! Lord Paradise Remix was commissioned by Bridge Projects, Los Angeles in 2021, with permission from Boosey and Hawkes for Crawley’s homage to Steve Reich’s composition; the film premiered at Bridge Projects for the group exhibition, Otherwise/Revival in Los Angeles (2021), and at KinoSaito, New York, as part of Christina McPhee: Regeneration (2022). Love God is recorded on the album Piano Solo Absolute-MIX (2016) and used for film by permission of Tomato Yazawa. From Nothing is a forthcoming audio release by Herndon for 2024.