…And Drive (Far Away)

“Unmarked Car, pt. 2” 2024, mixed media sound installation and performance, car, custom subwoofer, dimensions variable, co-presented Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA

“…And Drive (Far Away)” is a body of work which includes mixed media sound installation, durational performance, and film and approaches a cross-country drive along I-10 and I-95, from Tucson, Arizona to Richmond, VA, through the lens of Gulf South sonority. This phenomenon is deeply tied to the automobile, and generates a context through which history, marronage, sonic pageantry, and physical sensation may all collapse upon one another. Making use of custom car audio and window tint, the performance and installation of sonorous non-instruments looks at—specifically—a decommissioned Ford Police Interceptor/Crown Victoria simultaneously as a sociocultural-audiovisual marker key to Gulf South sonic ecologies; and as a space of potential self-abstraction, fraught with risk and ripe with potential for withholding, disappearance, or even flight, while drawing attention to the oft-dangerous labor required of migration.