Slipstream 006

‘Slipstream 006′ (2021)
Nancy Baker Cahill
Born-Digital Animated Video with Sound (Variable)
2048 x 2048
00:01:13, 30FPS
Unique
Slipstream fiction, trafficking in “the familiar strange or the strange familiar” via “epistemological and ontological questionings about reality,” [1] provides the conceptual framework for these mutated artworks. Evolutionarily speaking, each of us perceives our own distinct individual realities and are indelibly influenced by those shared with us. While invented truths are often deployed broadly for the purposes of oppression, disinformation campaigns and mass manipulation, this series embraces the ever-changing concept of truth itself. Each hybridized artwork in the series toys with and dwells in the murky territories of consciousness. Additive and subtractive in their construction, these transmutations embody a self-organizing logic.
‘Slipstream’ artworks begin as graphite drawings on paper, launching a long odyssey of production. The drawings are torn into pieces and then reconfigured in bespoke sculptural configurations. Echoing recombinant DNA, each sculptural installation represents an iterative