Relay
2014
3 Channel Installation Video
In 2002, I embarked on a series of video work called the Inertia Cycle. The primary focus of these videos is to explore physicality and intense exertion as it relates to the black body. As a society, we admire athletics. We revel in watching athletes push their bodies to their limits. In the Inertia Cycle I am exploring the theatrics of physical labor. For Northern Spark, the video performance piece Relay conveyed the quiet heroics of a community. Working as a meditative projection, viewers caught glimpse of Somali-Americans using the action of running as a metaphor for labor in a transformative journey. In this work, a continual stream of people are striving to move forward.
In a fierce grind, the video performance piece Relay conveys the quiet heroics of a community. Working as a meditative projection, viewers will get a voyeuristic glimpse of Somali-Americans using the action of running as a metaphor of labor in this journey. In this piece, a continuum of people will be striving to move forward.
