Here There: (Re)Collecting Labor on the American Railway
Multimedia Installation / Experimental Documentary

Collaboration with video artist Stefani Byrd. Funded through the Matt Marks Impact Fund, Alarm Will Sound, and Sonic Matter Festival [Zurich, Switzerland.]

Featuring an interview with Gordon H. Chang, author of Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Under Graduate Education and the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities, Stanford University, and archival resources provided by Roseville Historical Society

Here-There finds its texture in hidden, quotidian, or suppressed histories of industry, labor, and human movement in the United States, exploring experiences that fall outside dominant colonialist narratives of westward expansion and economic motivation. Using anti-racist texts and community archives as a framing point, we are creating an installation from footage and field recordings taken at several important transcontinental railroad sites in Northern California – Donner Summit Tunnel, Bloomer Cut, and Roseville Pacific Union Trainyard. The final installation will incorporate music, sound design, projection design, film, field recordings, archival film and photography, and interviews with experts.

 

 

 

 

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