Nashville, TN
City Order & Land Slices
Screening June 2012 – June 2013
Opening: First Thursday, May 3, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

After decades of renewal, infill and implosion, we see a continual rethinking of the life of American cities. The end result of urban growth is grid upon grid, melting together, forming an indistinguishable aesthetic of the city. City Order is a visualization of these effects. The soundtrack is from a 1950s informational film about urban progress and the need to remove older architecture in favor of new, more efficient construction. The overall aesthetic is discordant, both visually and audibly. The friction also exists in the flux as cities constantly reconfigure themselves.

In Land Slices, slices of landscapes appear on the screen resembling the first moments of consciousness. The slivers of locations stay barely long enough for the viewer to become familiar with the scene. Lined up next to each other they become a collection of vaguely familiar places. As each video appears it is accompanied by an assigned tone. Like a test, these tones mark and interrupt the experience with each landscape. Throughout the video, overlaid with the alarm tones, sound clips from an archived film describe the inhabitants of the wilderness and how one can use them for one’s survival.

More about the artist: www.ronlambertart.com.