Documentation by Allison Olivia Evans
towards/away
total run time: 2 minutes 22 seconds, looped
site-sensitive installation with hand-processed 16mm film and projector
2025
“Emotions are always relational: they involve (re)actions or relations of 'towardness' or 'awayness' in relation to such objects.” Sara Ahmed, Cultural Politics of Emotion
towards/away is a filmic exploration of (un)fixed orientations. The film, looping, (re)turns. To be thread(ed) again, coming towards you, (re)turning home, only to travel away through the bones of the space again. Through that which has (already) held so much weight. The film (image) changes with every cycle, encountering particles, making contact, encountering touch. The skin of the film will show lines, wear, age, folds, rupturing the image. Familiarity remains as the gradual change takes place, asking you to linger, to notice. With every (re)turn there is an illusion of sameness within absolute change.
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Like ships crossing, the film passes itself.
A looped abrasion. Excessive contact with the unforeseen particle.
Sun and shadow are distorted in the acid bath, in the tangle, in
crevice, in heat.