A Transgressive Space

A Transgressive Space (2016) is a video and sound installation that reworks footage recorded at the site of the former Teck Theater in Buffalo, New York. The location had previously housed two nineteenth-century music halls before the Teck Theater opened there in 1900. The theater closed in 1933, later reopened as a movie theater, and was gradually demolished between the early 1980s and 1992. The site remained a vacant lot when the work was created.

The center of the video image is blacked out, leaving only the edges of the frame visible. The video is accompanied by field recordings made during several visits to the site, capturing the artist’s interactions with found materials and objects there. The sound is played through lateral speakers in the gallery.

Exhibited in Boundaries: Transmission & Transmutation at Centrum Sztuki Galeria EL, Elbląg, Poland, March 2016.