A collaborative installation by artist
Sean Vale, and musician Jason Glover
June 2-24, 2001

Vale and Glover use vastly different media to explore similar conceptual ground. The overlapping fields of white on white and geometric forms of Vale’s work is echoed in Glover’s multi-layered sound-scapes. They combine their talents to produce an installation of sound and visual elements that reference the integration of past experience into perception of the now. Archive is installation as biography.

Sean Vale is a Seattle painter and installation artist who has shown his work at SOIL, ArtSpace, Pound, Fuzzy Engine, and James Harris Gallery.

Jason Glover is a local musician who performs throughout Seattle, and is a member of experimental music/performance group Tripod.

Artist's Statement, Sean Vale :

Sum of our experiences, some of our experiences.

Events moving through space-time like toothpaste squeezed from a tube.

A room full of white boxes.

What does this mean?

Artist's Statement, Jason Glover:

This placement of speakers and the assigning of long and short repeating parts, is an exciting way to realize a composition that never ends and comes from every angle of the room, free from the limitations of standard 2-speaker playback or PA system. More like standing in the middle of an orchestra that started before you got here, and will keep playing after you leave.

The continuous play of recorded documents reflects the idea of history being created every second by consciousness. Each recorded document is an object of the past, like a memory, but it really only exists in the present to the ear-consciousness that receives it. So, we have the past creating the present, and the present creating the past. Don't we?

© Sean Vale

© Sean Vale

© Sean Vale

© Sean Vale