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Reflections

Reflections was a video, sound, performative installation and collaborative project by Burns Maxey and Maggie Nowinski.
“Reflections” mapped the city of Easthampton, MA. A primarily sound and video installation, it projected large-scale videos of constructed conversations between eight community members. The work tracked the selected characters’ daily lives through photographs, and includes correspondence between the two artists via mailed postcards over a six month period. The installation included an installation of postcards along with video performance readings of the postcards received from each artist by the other. The opening evening included a performance by the artists created a visual journey on a large-scale Sanborn map of the area, taking cues from audio dialogue projected in the space.
Both Maxey and Maggie Nowinski (Project Intersect) have previously created site-specific work about Easthampton. In their collaboration of Reflections the artists looked at the small city through exchanged observations and the descriptions of the eight community members in a documentary style using larger-than-life portrait-style video projections. The audio and video in the installation were choreographed to express the self-described daily routes of the participants through the city and include observations about their environments.