The TangenT Art Collaborative was active between the years 2008-2018, cofounded the with artists Yvonne Love and William Cromar for the purpose of making immersive art installations that explore social and political themes. You can access all of TangenT video art on our Vimeo channel.
Project Archive: The Weight of Water, Diaspora, The ReDact Series, Broken Spoken, A Minute of your Time, Air Water Earth Fire, 709b, and The Lafayette Series.
Weight of Water constitutes a series of artworks made over the course of two years by TangenT in partnership with community organizations, activists, and representatives from the EPA and CDC. No. One in the series is a digital artwork comprised of archival footage, digital object renderings, portraits, interviews, site photographs and Google Earth Street View video. It is a collaged artifact that is meditation on impact, suffering, responsibility and governance inspired by well poisonings in the Philadelphia metropolitan region. It premiered at the Philadelphia Fringe Fest as part of their Digital Fringe Programming. You can see the digital art work in its entirety by clicking here.
Partnering with The Science History Institute in Philadelphia, TangenT developed three site specific installations that explore American ideals of individualism, patriotism and community, along with governance and trust in the aftermath of groundwater contamination in and around Warminster, PA, a northern Philadelphia suburb in Bucks County. In “Still Here” a portrait installation and audio composition we pay homage to impacted individuals, detailing in their own words stories of triumph and loss, and the hidden cost of a long standing water contamination crisis unfolding locally, in the US, and around the world today. In “Left Behind” an ersatz poem is extracted from historical documents that detail the contamination of well sites in Warminster, Bucks County, PA since the mid-1970’s. Collaged excerpts from Naval Archives are coupled with vintage water vessels numbered to reflect the sites of greatest environmental threat while representing the range of water uses in our lives. In “Found Inside” hand casted porcelain sculptures of the chemicals responsible for illness and death form the ground for a digital projection of a rendering of blood flow. Digitally manufactured red and white blood cells along with leukemia cells course through a vein illuminating whole and fractured molecules.
diASp0RA is a multi-media meditation on global population displacement. Originating with singular stories of refugees, diASp0RA explores the ideological + environmental causalities of world scale disruptions. The d1ASp0RA Series. Media: web-based installation. Size: size + duration varies with browser, device, and client. Watch here and here.
REDaCT is a series of artworks that explore visual renderings of facts detailed in redacted public documents. Drawing from state and federal reporting on individuals and institutions along with redaction in its many forms, the REDaCT series is as much a meditation on information control, privacy, and truth as much as it is about what is left behind and what we choose to record, see, and know.
REDaCT #6 | Crane Arts. An installation in 3 chapters: she was he was (flyspec #3), case study #1, and they appear date: 2016 media: audio-video loops, sidewalk chalk, shredded paper, vintage typewriters, graphite wash. size: varies. You can view a compilation of images and videos here. Watch a selection on Youtube here. And here. And here.
/*rEDaCT*/ [REDaCT #5] | Philadelphia Digital Fringe
Web-based art installation. Visit /*rEDaCT*/ » size: size + duration varies with browser, device, and client
Live Performance at Kimmel Center In Philadlephia. Media: performance art procession with live slide guitar and percussion, tyvek suits, silkscreen patches, bunraku uniforms, video loops. Size: size varies with installation, 1 h duration. Watch here.
flyspec [REDaCT#3] | Simulate/Permeate. Installation: media: tyvek suits, 6000 deceased flies hatched in 5 glass vitrines each 3” dia X 18” high, audio/video loops. Size: varies, 1 audio-video loop 10m duration, 1 video loop 3m duration. Watch here.
flyspec [REDaCT #2] | Filmideo. Audio-visual. Size: 1080x1080px audio-video loop 10m duration. Watch here.
The sound of flyspec [REDaCT #1] | DUMBO Arts Festival. Performance processional. Media: sound loop, tyvek suit, silkscreen patch, modified hydration pack, water. Size: 3h duration. Watch here.
The series of six works produced at Lafayette College represents TangenT Art Collaborative's first venture into serial production. While later series are thematically or topically linked, the Lafeyette series related works via formal strategy and technical process. These works also represent TangenT's goal to "defeat the tyranny of the aspect-ratio rectangle" in projected video work.
First Cut: media: audio/video loop, horsehair, fasteners. Size: varies with installation, 6m36s loop duration. Watch here. Home (Honey House) media: audio/video loop, vintage glassine envelopes, honey, fasteners. Size: varies. 5m49s loop. Watch here. Moulder: media: audio/video loop, printed graphite, salt. Size: varies with installation, 6m09s loop duration. Watch here. Proven: media: audio/video loop, vinyl contact paper. Size: varies with installation, 4m53s loop duration. Watch here. Refraction: media: audio/video loop, tulle fabric, fasteners. Size: varies with installation, 5m49s loop duration. Watch here. Swallow: media: audio/video loop, clay, fasteners. Size: varies with installation, 30s loop duration. Watch here.
Eco, Ecco, Echo is the inaugural artwork of TangenT. It is a multimedia artwork questioning assumptions about consumption… eco—the environment… ecco—to observe… echo—to actively respond to what reverberates from what is seen. The near pornographic consumption revealed in the forms of waste produced by modern industrial cultures is investigated in a work designed around three elements: a mesmerizing animation, a full-bodied soundscape and the surprise of human interaction: a gift of portable art freely given to random passers-by. Watch here.