A rested development is a collaborative sound and moving image work that used chance as a process to develop a sequence of autonomous elements that intersect and diverge in their unfoldings.
This method allowed for coincidental alignments and collisions between images and sounds. The result is a constellation of images that expand and contract within the undulations and oscillations of sound. This publication is an iteration of the original artwork: the soundtrack is divided into six discrete tracks; images from the video are stilled moments of time.
Ellen Moffat (born 1954 in Toronto) is a Canadian media artist who works in sound, image and text in installation and performance. She uses found and organic materials, field recordings, and generative processes to construct possible worlds of sonic fluctuation. Her artworks and compositions present sensorial spaces of listening and hearing to propose sound as ways of knowing the world as relations.
Eeva Siivonen is a moving image artist originally from Helsinki, Finland, based in London, Ontario. Her experimental moving image practice engages with strategies of documentary, essay, and found footage film practices. She employs these strategies to construct affective and immersive moving image installations and single channel works that speak to the experience of dislocation and fractured relationship to body, language, and place. They describe subjective experience in ways that resist separation between self and other, interior and exterior, human and nonhuman, and living and nonliving. They trace the deep yet precarious connections that emerge between human and nonhuman bodies and ecosystems; connections that are constantly both found and severed. Her practice maps an experiential space that is both permeated with vitality and haunted by personal and ecological loss. Her ethos is to create space for compassion and empathy by embracing the impossibility of gaining knowledge of ourselves and others and our place in the world.
