Jeremy Bolen

If We Stay Still

Jeremy Bolen, Katherine Young, Alexandria Smith

Exploring how our patterns of movement impact the world we live in, If we stay still uses sound, video, sculpture, and live musical performance to create an immersive, interactive environment in which stillness and action feel both unnervingly impossible and urgently necessary. This installation reflects on the potential of slowing our movement throughout the planet while speculating on what the planet might look and sound like in a geo-engineered future. 

A collaboration between artist / researcher / filmmaker Jeremy Bolen, music technologist / performer-composer / researcher Alexandria Smith, and composer / sonic artist Katherine Young, this installation speculates on a not-too-distant future where the sky has been engineered to block out the sun and once extinct species (the passenger pigeon) have been brought back through de-extinction methods. 

The evening soundscape recording was made at the Hard Labor Creed Observatory in Georgia, on the homelands of the peoples of the Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee nations. 

Visitors are invited to explore and interact with the space to see how their movements and positions change the sonic environment. 

Performers:

• Chris Childs - percussion 
  Deisha Oliver - cello
  Monique Osario - voice