The screen is split in two. One side shows a montage of archival film images: three girls fishing at a lake, a zombie chase scene, a woman in the bath. The other side shows the performer in dialog with the images: using various material resources and/or her own body to devise, create, and produce a new soundtrack to accompany them, thus orchestrating the images aurally and bringing them to life.

Because “All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap” is a sound and image performance, a diptych of parallel actions: a screen divided into two in order to amplify the sound and visual impressions made by selected extracts of archival film footage. Seeking to create a kind of audio-visual choreography composed of micro-movements and objects, the artist explores the correlations between sound, image, and the body, as well as the potential to exchange information across two moving images screened in parallel. This process leads to a playful experiment: a designated dramaturgical act on the part of the performer enters into discourse with the archival material to nurture non-synchronous realities, pushing them into unique new perspectives and dimensions.

How do two parallel activities affect the viewing process? How can the different temporalities of two images lead to multiple performative correlations and/or abstractions? What correspondence discovery mechanisms are activated in attempts to formulate a virtual fake entity?

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Review by Helen Tope