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ALASKA!!!!!! by Annie Mitchell

Like many of you, my year has been thrown (to put it mildly) by fortuitous events. Cancellations, delays and aggressive pivoting have been the name of the game. Fortunately, because my work is already designed to be experienced in nature, contemplatively, in silence and isolation, I’m a perfect fit for the direction public art must take in our post-apocalyptic present. It’s finally necessary to experience art outside the walls of a museum. I’m not exactly sure what that means for fine art, but I’m not here to solve that. I’m here to make cool shit in cool places that gets people moving and feeling and connecting with each other and nature.

Cut to Alaska.

I’m flying (Oh Dear God) with my amazing tech lead and programmer, David Howe on Friday to install my largest exhibit to date. I’ll have 2 separate locations running at the Anchorage Museum and .. my fav .. a more guerilla style piece for one-night somewhere in the wild. I’ll let you know where when I know myself. ;)

I was lucky enough to get to work with the talented WG Rickel on this soundscape. Always a treat. It’s sampled in the video but you can listen to the entire 16 minute mediation in stereo below. I recommend good headphones.

Soundscape for Haustoria. A light and sound experience by Annie Mitchell. This was composed by the amazing WG Rickel with the help of recordings by the Anchorage Museum's sound ecologists.

Mom's Deathiversary by Annie Mitchell

This time last year I was flying home to say goodbye to my Mom forever. I didn’t realize that she would pass just a few hours after I arrived. I thought I would have more time with her. Not that it was quality time at that point anyway…she was unconscious and being fed sublingual medicines to keep her out of pain. It was really hard to see my strong, beautiful Mother like that. She wasn’t there anymore. It was just her shell. So in many ways, it was a blessing when she passed but I guess… I guess I thought I would have more time to touch her and smell her and know that she was still in this dimension with me.

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