Sustained Decay
(in collaboration with Andy Vogt)

2009, site-specific mixed media installation with light and sound;
wood, lights, speakers, tactile transducers, electronics...

For the exhibition Sustained Decay, artists Joshua Churchill and Andy Vogt intervened in the current renovation and expansion of the Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. Renewal comes to a momentary halt, where both Vogt and Churchill reflect on the site's architecture and environment, sustaining the tension between progress and decay. Their respective practices - Churchill with field recording and site-specific sound and light installation, and Vogt with sculptural work using reclaimed wooden lath - have been integrated directly into the gallery space and its emerging boundaries, evoking an understanding of the time and history the Backroom Gallery continues to endure.

-Devon Bella, Curator of Adobe Books Backroom Gallery

press:
SFMOMA | Open Space (pt 1, pt 2)
SF Chronicle / SF Gate
Taide Design
SF Weekly