"Dismantle a World" sound performance at Thoma Foundation. 2019.

DIGITAL ARTIFACTS: CLOSING RECEPTION & PERFORMANCE

Dismantle a World is a sound performance embodying the historic and ongoing tension between technology, industry, the land, and its people. In particular, the tension between the exploitative weapons manufacturer Fairchild Semiconductor and the local Navajo Nation become the backdrop from which Dylan pulls technological and visual references. To tell this story, the artist dons a self-designed wearable textile instrument which covers his entire upper body. The instrument's "face" is a modified circuitboard, its copper wiring responding to touch and movement by creating sound. Video footage of idyllic New Mexico landscapes act as background. The performance both absorbs and projects the presence of place, combining harmony and noise, beauty and violence, human and technology.