in-progress, 2026
Interdisciplinary collaboration, Multi-channel audiovisual installation with AI-mediated temporal processes, spatial sound, and a distributed networked system.
Keepsakes in Every Hair ~ Migration explores memory as something altered in transit. Shaped by migration, translation, and uneven belonging, the work approaches memory not as a stable record to be retrieved, but as a shifting set of fragments continually changed as they move across bodies, places, media, and technical systems, leaving residual traces at intimate and distributed scales.
Developed in collaboration with artists working across sound and space, the installation unfolds through six interacting temporalities: human, liminal, environmental, digital, infrastructural, and more-than-human. These temporal streams do not resolve into a single timeline or coherent account. Instead, they register the same fragments unevenly, producing a distributed field in which memory is delayed, translated, intensified, foregrounded, and lost differently from one perceptual layer to another.
Within this field, AI operates as one nonhuman perceiving layer among others. It encounters archived images, text, sound, and environmental input according to thresholds of attention and relation that differ from those of human listeners, moving bodies, or spatial acoustics. Piano motifs, projected imagery, and textual fragments emerge, recede, and reappear as these distinct systems of sensing come into contact, misalign, and reorganize one another.
Computation functions here not as a totalizing authorial force, but as one material and temporal agent within a broader collaborative ecology. By allowing memory to be differently sensed across human, machinic, atmospheric, and spatial processes, Keepsakes in Every Hair ~ Migration constructs an unstable environment in which formation and dispersal occur at once. Memory does not return here as a whole. It appears in partial signals, altered recurrences, and residual traces that continue to shape the space even as they fade.
