unHorizons

“The horizon has a role to play in making the actual objects actual; it holds them in place, situates them, gives them their orientation, signification, and the very force of their actuality.” (Lingis)

“Horizons are open, and they shift; we enter into them and they in turn move with us.” (Habermas)

“How finally to think power and space without frontiers and horizons?” (Povinelli)

The horizon is a hem between world and atmosphere, a line marking the end of the Earth we stand on. It relies on a perspective, a certain positioning of the body in space, an orientation. Looking towards the horizon is a locative practice, one that spatializes ideas about what is and what might be. Futurisms flicker mirage-like on the far side of the horizon, just past the curve of the Earth. This project troubles the work this line does by untethering the horizon from a landscape. Stitching together roles of film I’ve taken in different places over the past few years, these horizons become patchworks of multiple locales, viewpoints, and positions of my body. I scanned these stitched horizons with a portable document scanner, creating new landscapes composed of gesture, movement, repetition and glitch.