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Statement
I have been investigating the idea of the remix in both photographic and musical terms. Taking something that has already been created to stand on it's own and manipulating it to suit a different need has become very relevant in the new decade and I feel it is a concept worth illustrating. Having made a couple dance "mashups" in my spare time I began to think about incorporating this technique into my photography. After creating a dance mix, rooted in Baltimore club music that combines 19 different musicians and their songs, I started "sampling" the musician's press-kit photos, combining them with pictures of myself creating a seamless image to illustrate, in the same way as the music, the combination of my efforts as well as the original musician's. The eleven-minute mix, accompanied by 19 images created using the process described above, are showcased together in a dark, club-like exhibition space. The images are viewable in a projected film (at life-size) where I am "hanging" them on the wall to the tempo of the music. The images range in size due to the original scaling of the musician's press photo. I am including another projected video, played at the same time as the projection of myself, of a crowd dancing to the song. I want to engage the viewer visually, aurally and physically with images, music and dance respectively.