KILL FLOOR, 2023

1984 Lincoln Town Car hood, steel, beef trolleys, meat hooks, chain, salvaged valve seat grinder box, speaker cable, exciters, mini amplifiers, ipod Nano

Nine-channel audio installation

Duration: 55 min

Do I love my country?

Does my country love me?

A sonic sociogram of the controlled rage of a woman in a Post-Roe landscape. Constructed of archival audio, media recordings, YouTube and internet videos, and personal field recordings in Alaska and New Mexico – sonic extractions performed in the growing shadow of neo-extractivism.

A story that began in 1984 in Fairbanks, Alaska with President Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and aviation jet fuel refined from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), the 800-mile pipeline owned at that time by an unincorporated group created by ARCO, British Petroleum (BP), and Humble Oil. Part story, part network, part history, part autobiography, part lyrical essay, linear and spatial simultaneities, directional yet looping, history repeating itself yet dangerously new. Loud. Quiet. Violent. Disgusting. Dissenting. The sounds of power include the natural, wild, geological, democratic, autocratic, religious, mechanical, electrical, digital, artificial, superficial, and judicial.

Fabrication: Benjamin Brown & Jessica Metz

Field Recording & Sound Composition: Jessica Metz

Photography: Nicholas Valdes