Author name: hsbuild

Mitosis, Mattress, and Five Talking Drawers (script for an audio loop for an installation)

On a single wall, as if the three-dimensional space of a bedroom had been flattened onto it: Each drawer conceals a small speaker: when a drawer is opened, a voice emanates; when it is closed, it is silenced. The drawers are programmed to be opened and shut in a specific order. Each drawer is associated […]

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BLADE (a prose poem, 2017)

My first crush was on the knife. It made the fork look like an artless rake; the spoon was just plain pathetic. Now you may think I was perhaps projecting my daughterly love for my father onto the knife, but my father was a fat ugly bastard, and I knew that as soon as I

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project | DIARY OF A YOUNG BOAT

[Per la traduzione italiana, clicca qui.] The Diary of a Young Boat is a kind of interdimensional radio play—sometimes with and sometimes without any actual radios involved.  The shape-shifting forms this ongoing series takes reflect its embedded narrative: the fictional aural diary of a pubescent girl who miraculously transforms into a boat. The installations in this

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audio | THEATER IN THE CLOUD

THEATER IN THE CLOUD is a forum for exploring new genres in audio plays, internet theater and online literary forms. There is a startling, subversive element in art forms that infiltrate our private spheres—such as radio plays and new internet art forms—or embed themselves unexpectedly in public spaces—such as urban interventions and site-specific theater—impacting our lives in visceral, subliminal ways. Suddenly, in familiar places,

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installation | METAMORFOSI DI UNA BARCA

In 2009, having completed the text for Diary of a Young Boat, I began exploring the visual components of this piece, using discarded household objects such as mirrors, ladders, umbrellas, ropes and string in floating, multimedia pieces that incorporated the surrounding space. Ultimately, these suspended sculpture/paintings led to the Metamorfosi di una barca (2011), a site-specific installation of

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The Horror Autotoxicus | TWO TRIPTYCHS

For now, two of the three triptychs envisioned have been completed, and one ballad, entitled “Punishment of the Fathers,” has been recorded in collaboration with composer Joshua Haugen, with voice direction and audio editing by Irene Ruscelli. Punishment of the FathersI see my father as a child, somewhere around four or five,fat-faced, greasy and already

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