Approximate L Rehearsal, March 21, 2009
Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR
Photo: Jeffrey T. Baker
Local artist/poet Bethany Ides is currently exhibiting her exploration of all things Lindsay at Worksound Gallery in Southeast Portland. Audio, video, and installation are all employed as a means of exposing the slippery linguistic morass time makes of a name. Artworks by other people named Linsey are temporarily appropriated, bodice-ripping fiction by pseudonymic Linseys are desecrated for the sake of heft and mirth, and there's an opportunity to take part in a six degrees of (Lindsay) separation game with minor icons of the silver screen. Enough contextual density exists within the show to keep the nimble mind well satiated.
Brandon the director, and Yours Truly the photographer, provided documentation for the performance component of the Approximate L project. The performance took place prior to the gallery exhibit, so we offered up time and equipment to ensure that it was represented within the context of all the other pieces at Worksound. Some of the resulting photographs are shown here, and quite a few more are on display in the show.
Documenting a performance (or, to be accurate, the rehearsals for a performance) was an intriguing challenge. Neither Brandon or I were familiar with the structure of the performance until we arrived, and we were given complete license to move about and intrude upon the action. Our approach was to shoot liberally and from as many vantage points as possible, hoping that the laws governing averages would work in our favor as well.
For those interested in seeing the exhibit please contact Bethany via her blog. Worksound is open by appointment only, and Approximate L will only be on display through the end of the month.
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