“A tendency to go inwards.”

This piece brings perception and movement into orbit by traversing types of cadences and a public garden. Pianist Larissa Kiyashko describes expectation through musical textures attributed to European nation-states while the viewer is asked to look closely at a large rock and consider how one might arrive at a resolution.

Running Time: 6:15 (excerpt: 2:10)
Digital video with found magic eye images, colour, sound
Aspect Ratio: 1920 x 1080

Voice: Larissa Kiyashko
Produced with the support of the Toronto Arts Council

France/UK, 2013

That morning, I left before rush hour and walked across the river in the general direction of the Eiffel tower, a safe bet because you can't miss it.

Earlier, we sat motionless in the coach in the train in the dark speeding through the tunnel under the channel, and I read about feet leaving no trace on pavement, and that people "merely skim the surface of a world that has been previously mapped out and constructed for them to occupy, rather than contributing their movements to its ongoing formation."*

When I first saw the rock, I had to stop because it was unexpectedly unlike other rocks.
When you first hear a Neapolitan Sixth, you have to stop because it is unexpectedly unlike other harmonies.


* Tim Ingold, Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description, 2011.

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Neapolitan Sixth: walk around the rock

We sit inside the coach, the coach inside the train, the train in the dark, inside the tunnel, speeding under the channel, and I read* that our feet leave no trace on pavement, we skim the surface of a world that is mapped for occupation, wearing shoes, walking on and not through.
The next morning, I left before rush hour and walked across the river in the general direction of the Eiffel tower. There was a garden. I paused and decided to walked through.
When I first saw the rock, I had to stop because it was unexpectedly unlike other rocks.
When you first hear a neapolitan sixth, you have to stop because it is unexpectedly unlike other harmonies.

* Tim Ingold, Being Alive, 2011
Anthropologist Tim Ingold referencing James Gibson: perception is a function of movement; perceiving follows an itinerary of movement, moving around the thing perceived.