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Three years ago I began a meticulous process of documenting each of my hourly interactions. This process began after a major life shift in which I knew my interactions would shift in response to; I wanted to document that change. Using digital and analog methods, I create systems of transcription including mixed-media installation, performance, sound, and video work. What started as a personal project became an ongoing investigation into interpersonal interactions of data and quantification.
During 2020 I recorded each of my interactions in three layers per hour. I categorized interactions into three types: spatial, cognitive, and physical interactions. This audio is a direct translation of each of those interactions. Each beat represents all three of those interactions happening simultaneously, just as they did in real time. When there is unison in the note, that signifies that all types of interactions were occurring with the same person during that hour; when there is dissonance that signifies that I was interacting with different people in different ways during the same hour.
Compiling this data draws me to focus on the unintentional, unrecognizable, and unconscious patterns in my life. Every moment we are experiencing either time spent with ourselves or time spent interacting with the world around us. I am interested in the experienced space between each interaction. I want to push others to recognize these experiences of time spent as I do. My documentation leaves no room for mistakes or secrets, forcing myself to be brutally honest with my interactions. I live my life being vulnerable, exposed, and honest because of this data set. I create work that focuses on this exposed vulnerability and honesty, I do not want to hide what I am doing, or how I am spending my time. There are no secrets, just names, numbers, associations, and memories.
