Sarah GHP

Installation. Pepper's Ghost illusion jars with analog and digital video. Silent.

STWST upstairs
Part of exhibition: open throughout

Here is a coast; here is a harbor;
here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery;

Elizabeth Bishop, “Arrival at Santos”

I grew up very close to the beach. It was common for it to be quite foggy when my mother took me to school in the morning. I would always use the time between being dropped off and the start of class to wander out into the playing fields, trying to lose myself in the fog.

It was never thick enough for me to be really lost, but I pretended it was. I was surrounded but alone; I imagined monsters and adventures and found the world made strange.

Lost in the Sauce brings this sense of partial otherworldly discovery to the Fog Manifesto Fog Cube, through the Pepper's Ghost technique — an early technical development which used simple, but patented illusion technique to haunt and enchant. Found here are maximalist videos — all image, no information. You have to remove the information to create the space. Perhaps in the fog, in the past, we may find a better point of departure, not out of nostalgia, but as a do-over.

Sarah GHP started doing live-code video performances about seven years ago, and since then has branched out into improvised or improvisation-based one-channel videos. She likes to use code, eurorack modules, and vintage and emulated video processors. Sarah is preoccupied with formal video perversion and nostalgic colors and textures as visual suggestions that (a) the computer is not better than you and (b) its hegemony is incomplete. She was born in California and now lives in Berlin. She can speak some German.

https://www.sarahghp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/supersghp/
https://post.lurk.org/@sarahghp

Photo: Westley Hennigh-Palermo