[Looking Out #15] Margaret Cox, The Day Dreamer and Night

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Graphic scores by Margaret Cox, in collaboration with Michael Johnsen + Maeve, featuring soap, linen, magnetic tape, and singing saw.

“I’m stunned by the complexities of emotions during this time of quarantine and global pandemic. A single moment can at once be overcome by illumination and caution, comedy and gravity, daydream and dread—perhaps it is in the air like an ebullient current both bubbling with energy and boiling with anxiety. I don’t yet have the mental clarity to simply relax or slow down. And yet within this overactive imagination comes new ideas, better processes, ways to care for each other at a distance, the destruction of falsehoods, the killing of demons, and leaving behind what isn’t useful. Parts of this project were inspired by two scenes from film Delicatessen in which Dominique Pinon as Louison punctuates scenes of dystopic chaos with surreal reprieve: once with an unearthly performance of bubble blowing and then again while playing musical saw on the roof of his nearly destroyed apartment building with Julie (Marie-Laure Dougnac). The Day Dreamer and Night Sweats are two graphic sound scores with audio accompaniment by myself and the dear and true Michael Johnsen. The window becomes a screen experienced through the muse, Maeve, as she takes in the current moment in safety and gratitude to feel all there is to feel.”

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‘Looking Out’ features works by Pittsburgh artists created through their respective windows while sheltering in place. This on-going series envisions a new commons making our mutual experience of sheltering-in-place one less of isolation and more of collectivity and solidarity. This series is a Miller ICA project with prompt by Alex Young.

-looking out from our windows and for each other

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