“Two 16 mm films are projected opposite of one another.  The two women in the films, skaters in a barren landscape spin slowly around in circles. These women are twins. To activate the film the viewer sits in-between the images at an old treadle sewing machine and pumps the treadle. In this way the viewer’s participation in activating the film also functions as a reminder that we generate rhythm and movement – things don’t stand still and the past is relevant to the future. In this work the shape of the  funnel-like “listening horn” has a particular history – it is based on devices used during war to spy on enemies – the design of the dresses echoed the aesthetic of the listening horn. In the installation it appears the two women are in different locations communicating with each other. Into the funnel-like “listening devices”  something is being said – a sound more like anguish rather than any type of recognizable speech and it appears something is transmitted back.

Like antennae, the funnel-like “listening device” seems capable of catching remnants that we might otherwise miss. This image appears to hover on the edge of logical comprehension, a space where the past is incorporated into an ongoing process of  becoming. The voices, energy and insights that appear to be collected are directed back into the core of the twirling, performative, female body – a gesture that suggests a critical and active female subject, and a distinct form of interconnectedness. In some ways the images suggest a retrieval of knowledge and a form of transcendence, as if something lost or out of view is being returned or experienced anew as an energetic force.”