2015
21 Minutes, 36 Seconds, Single Channel Installation
This iteration of SeeThrough is a single-channel video installation exploring the relationships between space, movement, and memory. The primary subject of the installation is the former Fergus Falls Mental Hospital which received its first patient in 1890 and closed in 2009. Found footage from inside the hospital, home video from families in the surrounding area, and newly captured media are woven together to provide a total experience of the storied building.
SeeThrough is a collaboration with sound artist Kevin Springer whose work provides the majority of the soundscape for the installation. The 23-minute excerpt used in SeeThrough was originally performed by Springer inside the East Wing of the former Mental Hospital. The work uses natural sounds, oral histories, and the shape of the space itself to generate a masterful, aural rendition of the space.
2015
9 Minutes, 25 Seconds
During the first half of their time as Hinge Arts Residents, Robert and Rosie used improvisational, site-specific screendance choreography to create this sketch of their kinesthetic experiences with an enormous, storied town landmark - the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center, aka "the Kirkbride." This would serve as their template for the final dance film, featured above.
2015
9 Minutes
The culmination of the Hinge Arts Residency was, SeeThrough | a Dance Film at the Kirkbride. As residents, Robert Uehlin and Rosie Yerke used improvisational, site-specific screendance choreography to create this screendance on Super 8mm film of their kinesthetic experiences within an enormous, storied town landmark - the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center, aka "the Kirkbride."