What Isn’t There

An outdoor video installation by Public Studio
Thursday, May 22, 2014, 8pm – Midnight
Milky Way alleyway between Elm Grove and Cowan, Toronto, Canada

What Isn’t There is an ongoing art project documenting the sites where Palestinian villages once stood. This version, a four-channel outdoor video installation, plays with notions of time by tearing at the seams of photography and film, and presenting the Israel-Palestine conflict as ranging from the mundane, to the sublime, to the absurd—as a bestiary, a map, and a place that doesn’t exist.

Team: Tamira Sawatzky and Elle Flanders camera, directing, producing; Anna Friz: composer and sound design; Jared Raab: editing; Darby Macinnis: editing; Josh Schonblum: additional editing and tech design; Seth Hisiger: installation build; and Lili Huston Herterich: Production Supervisor and Studio Manager, Public Studio.

 

What Isn’t There An outdoor video installation by Public Studio Thursday, May 22, 2014, 8pm – Midnight Milky Way alleyway between Elm Grove and Cowan, Toronto, Canada What Isn’t There is an ongoing art project documenting the places where Palestinian villages once stood. In this version, a four-channel outdoor video installation, he Israeli Palestinian conflict is addressed from the inside—from the mundane to the sublime to the very absurd. The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 signaled the end of these villages through force and exile, and since that time many have gone back to nature or turned into newly inhabited sites. While occasionally small signs of past and present habitation are found, it is evident that what truly remains is the unsettling presence of absence. Like our former installation Road Movie, the Public Studio team includes: Tamira Sawatzky and Elle Flanders camera, directing, producing,Anna Friz composer and sound design, Jared Raab editing and visual wizardry, Darby Macinnis, editing, Josh Schonblum additional editing and tech design, Seth Hisiger installation build and Lili Huston Herterich, Production Supervisor and Studio Manager, Public Studio.