Oyster Island
[in progress]
Oyster Island is a tiny speck of rock in New York Harbor that juts out of the water to become an island only during unusually low tides. In this Atlantis-like location, visitors are invited to consider the language of half-human, half-snail creatures: what would such a language sound like? What if you, too, might transform into one of the island’s species of red beard sponges, razor clams, or moon snails?
This sound and video installation is a sly parable for our oncoming climate catastrophe that implicates the audience in a sense of becoming alien to ourselves and to each other—and as water gradually encroaches on our limited supply of viable land, invites a visceral recognition that hell is, indeed, other people.
