Shelby Head
Providence, RI
My interdisciplinary practice investigates the social and linguistic constructs that shape identity, history, and collective memory in the United States.
MessageCollection: Interplay
The installation used bebop style jazz as inspiration and reproduced the essence of bebop visually through concepts such as a small ensemble of musicians, the minimal arrangement of melody at the beginning and end of a piece, and a succession of improvisations. Interplay accomplished the transformation from bebop to form by limiting the number of materials used throughout the installation, applying specific concepts in music and jazz theory to principals and elements in art, and expressing those concepts using a traditional jazz AABA song form as a template for the overall composition of the installation.
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