Opening November 2nd, 4:00pm to 8:00pm
TRANSLATION PLEASE
Video installation – world premiere
16mm and digital video, collage, light box, paintings on silk, and a paper cut by Erik Ruin
Lighting and shadows by Drew Simpson and Liz Howls
For more info on Rankin Renwick’s work
www.odoka.com
The show will be open on Saturdays and Sundays in November from noon to 4:00pm or by appointment… Email theAnitabuilding@gmail.com to make an appointment.
There will be a closing event on the 30th of November at 7:00pm where Rankin will show a selection of their films from their series of filmed places, stories and histories of Cascadia with scores by musicians living in the Pacific Northwest.
This piece touches on Renwick’s own experiences of hearing things that a lot of people can not, and on people trying to make us more aware of things we can not hear, on intra-species communications, like the work of Jim Nollmann who played music for and with Orcas in the Salish Sea in the 70’s, like artist Lisa Schonberg, who records insects in the wild and creates musical compositions out of them, of Project CETI using AI to try and translate the codas of Sperm whale clicks, and of siren healer, composer Michaela Harrison who sings to whales in the wild waters off Brazil.
All the while, while editing this piece over the last year, Renwick heard thousands of pleas from Palestinians on Instagram as well.
This installation contemplates the people who are trying really hard to listen, and the people who are hardly listening.