Reflections
Reflections
Reflections was a video, sound, performative installation, and collaborative project by Burns Maxey and Maggie Nowinski (2010).
“Reflections” is an exhibition that maps the city of Easthampton, MA. A primarily sound and video installation projects large-scale videos of constructed conversations between eight community members. The work also tracks the selected characters’ daily lives through photographs and includes correspondence between the two artists via mailed postcards over a six-month period. The installation includes the actual postcards along with video performance readings of the postcards received from each artist by the other. The opening evening will include a performance by the artists who will create a visual journey on a large-scale Sanborn map of the area, taking cues from audio dialogue projected in the space.
Both Maxey (Project Elements Easthampton) and Nowinski (Project Intersect) have previously created site-specific work about Easthampton. In their collaboration of Reflections, the artists look at the city through exchanged observations and the descriptions of the eight community members in a documentary style using larger-than-life portrait-style video projections. The audio and video in the installation are choreographed to express the self-described daily routes of the participants through the city and include observations about their environments.
