Karmic II
@ 2021 New Media Gallery Residency, Jack Straw Cultural Center ︎Seattle, WA
Karmic II takes many of the horrors of 2020 and 2021 and blends them into an audiovisual installation meant to make us reconsider and challenge our own psychological perceptions of the world.
Featured is the video work, Horror & Its Uni Verse, which employs horror conventions and glitch with audio and video projections to critique online monetization and capitalism from the perspective of a scene that is incredibly reminiscent of the COVID-19 era.
Inspired by Southeast Asian horror movies and the ‘90s TV drama of the ghost PhiKrasue, the artist investigates what exactly creates “a monster,” and what psychological and social control they enforce through sonic elements and performance. Karmic II is a continuation of a New Media Fellowship project and immersive installation, Karmic I, exhibited at OpenSignal in 2019, in Portland, OR.
May Maylisa Cat was awarded the Jack Straw New Media Gallery residency, which offers up tothree artists/artist teams in the Pacific Northwest the opportunity to create and present workinvolving sound and technology. Gallery residencies include an exhibition; 20 hours of studioassistance; access to audio recording, production, and presentation equipment; two publicevents - the opening and an artist talk; and an interview podcast (jackstraw.org/artistoftheweek).
July 30through - September 10, 2021