Five Sites
Temporary outdoor multi-media installation & performance installed and performed at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland, 1996
Five Sites was a temporary outdoor multimedia installation and performance project realized at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland, on land previously used as a working farm. The project unfolded across five locations, identified in collaboration with two Maine dowsers who detected areas of disturbance within the landscape and proposed sites requiring attention or correction.
Each site served as a point of interaction, marked by ephemeral installations that incorporated scrim structures and performative actions. Throughout the three-month summer duration, I collaborated with local performers who activated the sites through movement and gesture, as well as with participants who planted vegetable and flower gardens. As the season advanced, the growing plants became intertwined with the installations, altering the work in response to time and weather.
Five Sites approached the land as a responsive field shaped by prior use, memory, and unseen forces. Instead of seeking to restore the site, the project established temporary conditions for listening, tending, and exchange, enabling human presence, growth, and duration to become integral elements of the work.
