Sara Zalek and I performed a live set of field recordings, improvised music and dance for Todd Carter's"BelAir Presents" on Lumpen radio. The recordings come from Steel Workers Park on the South Side of Chicago, once called US Stee,l one of several Steel Mills that were located on the South East Side of the city. What found were urban ruins of ore walls and giant boulders of slag, large factory components to giant machines in a public space seeming to be a park and a memorial. In these actions and recordings, we reflect on industry and imagination in the context of a terrain vague and a recovering landscape.
“Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time, you’re never quite on the beat. Sometimes you’re ahead and sometimes behind. Instead of the swift and imperceptible flowing of time, you are aware of its nodes, those points where time stands still or from which it leaps ahead. And you slip into the breaks and look around.” — Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison