I, the Thing in the Margins
I, the Thing in the Margins
I, the Thing in the Margins was a solo exhibition by Wright exploring “silent” histories of nature and environmental sound recordists. Through performance, sound and assemblage the show was built around a chimeric persona; part human, part animal, part microphone; some thing that haunts the signal of media documentary practice. It asked what identity might lurk in the margins of sound capture and the hiss of self-noise? The central image from the exhibition appropriates frame 352 from the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, in which the famed mythos cypto-character looked back into the cameras gaze.
The work was first installed as part of a solo exhibition at IMT Gallery, 2015. Exhibition reviews can be read here:
The project continues to iterate over various platforms including writing and academic presentation:
Super Unhomely, installation view.
Humanimentical Prototype, detail.
Humanimentical Prototype, detail.
Contact Zone #2, installation view
I, the Thing in the Margins, deluxe C-type print