Sight, Sound, Suburbia

The suburban neighborhood that is presented in Sight, Sound, Suburbia was built in the late 1950’s and has several abandoned spaces throughout the approximate four square mile area. My childhood home was within this neighborhood. In 2017, I began to observe and document this neighborhood that has not rebounded from the 2008 American housing crisis and recession.

Transitions have been a continuous component in the production of my art projects. The continual cycle of how the houses in the neighborhood have changed from real estate sales to foreclosures or even abandonment is why I began to document the current state of this suburban environment. My fieldwork and related observations do not depict the perfect stereotypical sights associated with the American suburbs. The neighborhood has been impacted by the broader implication of the national economy, continual suburban sprawl and changes in the local labor culture. These broader and local transitions compose the film’s multilayered suburban narrative, presented with the still and moving digital imagery, text from local and national news headlines, my first-person narrative field notes, and sampling of audio recording from my suburban sound collection.

Sight, Sound, Suburbia has been included in the following group exhibits:

Other Disciplines Exhibition; Video work, Exhibition Venue: CASYC UP (Santander, Spain) Aug. 27 – Sept. 9, 2018

University College London, Multimedia Anthropology Lab (London, England)

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