AUDREY NEIDENBACH

AUDREY NEIDENBACH

THE INTERSECTIONS OF LIFE

2013

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My work addresses the theme of everyday for many reasons. The book, the everyday, and addresses what the everyday is in two ways that I thought resembled my work. The first way is, “it is inexhaustible, unimpeachable, always open ended and always eluding forms or structures’. Moreover, the everyday is the site of a fundamental ambiguity: it is both where we become alienated and where we can realize our creativity”(15). 

The second way is, “this is also the meaning of the derive-literally, drift- which can be minimally defined as a controlled and, in principle, collective (in small groups) form of movement through several areas of the same city in order to distinguish, as objectively as possible, differences in ambience or atmosphere”(95). My work focuses on the intersection of 11th and Grandview Avenue, where my house stands. It’s also the intersection where college students, people in halfway houses, Christian fraternity brothers, families, construction workers and animals/nature all intersect. I see this intersection and I’m in this intersection every single day so it is apart of my everyday. 

To create my work I used a HD camera and an audio recorded where I recorded each video and audio at separate times. Most of my view and audio of the project is from my porch since that is really where I see these intersections of life everyday. However, I also have the view and audio from the middle of the intersection as well as down the Grandview Avenue. I will also record the audio from the porch and walking down my street, because there are so many different sounds and people all in one place. At some points in the video I mix the audio from the recorder and the audio from the camera together, to create an artistic and interesting sound.