Hudson Valley Works

Site-specific works and performances created for CATWALK residency in Catskill, New York. CATWALK is housed in the estate of the 19th-century Hudson River School painter (and premiere director of Harvard’s Museum) Charles Herbert Moore.

Between Two Towers (2014)

Soundscape and listening station with viewshed, 3'

Forest Harmonium (2012)

ephemeral performance, found harmonium, 50'

I spent two weeks at the CATWALK artist residency in Upstate New York, making art and music works about the history and landscape of the area. I would pass these tall trees every day and wonder how I could incorporate them into a work, and decided to make them a public piece. I crocheted four strands of thread over 20 feet long each, reaching up to four bells in the trees. When pulled, the bells would ring in the forest, turning the trees into musical instruments.

Bell Trees (2012)

handbells in trees with crocheted pulls

A video documenting a performance piece outdoors as part of the CATWALK summer residency I did in Catskill, NY. Edited to quasi-music-video style (albeit with limited technology) and with texts by the philosopher Josh Ruskin and painter Charles Herbert Moore.

Ruskin, Outdoors (2012)

found object/found instrument performance, edited as music video, 5'