Instrument/Traveler’s Ode video-audio installation, Time-Based Art Festival 2020
2-channel video installation, audio loops on cassette decks
(above photo credits: Tojo Andrianarivo, courtesy of PICA)
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For TBA:20 (Sept 26-27, 2020) Dao Strom gave an intimate from-home performance (livestreamed) of songs and visuals from Instrument/Traveler’s Ode, and presented a one-day installation of visual poetry and audio fragments (played on cassette decks) in PICA’s Annex.
Dao Strom's Instrument/Traveler's Ode is an experiment in multimodal poetics, inhabiting a synergistic blend ot poetry, music, and visual art: the artist's three forms of "voice". A unique melding of literature and art in one unified book, Instrument combines color photography, personal biography and gripping, restless poetry. Traveler's Ode is an interwoven series of textured, ethereal song-poems that are atmospheric yet weighted, featuring vocal layering, spare guitar and piano, and field sounds from sources such as rivers, sea, jungle, birds.
“Wading into a new decade (…) forty-five years after the exodus” (2020)
Ambient Audio + Video (6:49 min.)
Exhibited at TBA:20, Sept 2020.
TBA:20 Music-Poetry Performance (at-home livestreamed performance)