A video work as part of ‘Product of New Zealand’.

An audiovisual component of a larger project that centered around unearthing ‘artefacts’, clues to my family history, in boxes in the garage. Many of the works for this exhibition had their genesis in these explorations. The artefacts… photos, albums, writings, documents, ephemera etc. was used to blend into other works through collage and layering.

For this work, i projected these artefacts upon myself, watching my form blend into their textures and colours, sometimes losing myself, other times standing starkly out. This follows my regular exploration of projection upon the body, and reworking it through re-videoing, and layers of process.

In the context of this exhibition, this work was projected upon an installation of the very boxes from which i got my artefacts. This includes the box marked ‘Product of New Zealand’, from where I got my exhibition name.

The production quality is lo-fi, using easily accessible equipment like cellphones and apps like Hipstamatic.