Ben McCarthy is a sound and installation artist, among other things. Working alongside visual artist and game designer Jonathan Carroll (of performance art collective Tough Guy Mountain), they bring together sound design and virtual reality to document the self-narrated stories of workers directly impacted by the policies and budget cuts undermining the most marginalized among us, including social workers, nurses, sex workers, temporary foreign workers, and hotel workers.

In the VR helmet, a user will see a number of human figures circulating, and hear a sound track of disparate voices and musical texture. Ambiently hovering over a form will invite the subject to step forward, accompanied by her chosen objects, and to deliver elements of her interview. The 3D-scanned body will be expressionistically animated to develop elements of the interview and the sound design. The work raises questions about how we know and access the working subject in the context of an encompassing capitalist technological ecosystem.

Join us for the opening reception April 25, 7-9pm at Trinity Square Video.

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