Zeljko McMullen :

In my work, I utilize sounds and images to deconstruct the present space of the experiencer, replacing it with a perpetually shifting mythical architecture.   Intended as a counter-din to the information saturation of present day society, my work serves as a cathartic release, a womb-like shelter of imploding space that allows for an introverted experience.
Projections from multiple sources collide onto a central focal point - manifesting a new composite world.   Overlapping imaginations - a church crammed into a closet poured out on a mountain raining out of the sea... These elements, gathered from excursions into the collective unconsciousness, function like living cells in a larger body.   Each expand and contract, pushing one another out of the way.   The relationships are not organized hierarchically, but instead these parts are rescaled into emanating dreams without a sense of time or necessary progress.  
Presently, my work manifests itself in musical recordings, archetype exploration through video ritual, and live performance.  The goal of this placement is to create a physical and psychological immersion into a visceral presence of phenomena where subject and object become intertwined.  The experience conjures images and feelings of polarities: presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place, and the solid and the intangible.

 

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