Lori Waxman reviewed "boundarymind" for her 60 Wrd/Min Art Critic blog!
Oh, mementos—even tidiness guru Marie Kondo makes special allowances for
them. They are objects kept for reasons of oftentimes obscure personal
value, and they can be anything from a cassette tape to a coffee mill,
plastic toy car, pine cone, colorful Mardi Gras beads or wooden spoons.
“boundarymind,” a short film directed by Kera MacKenzie with a
soundtrack by Linda Jankowska and Katherine Young, features these and
other items pulled from the composers’ childhoods. In the film their
keepsakes dangle from the sky, are arranged and rearranged on a
tabletop, beckon from around the corners of an old house, hang from the
branches of a tree, and animate humorous little narratives. They can
also apparently be used to make a lot of noise, despite not being
anything close to proper musical instruments, a situation that allowed
Jankowska and Young to create a composition ranging from clangy to eerie
to plucky. Though many years in the making, “boundarymind” feels
perfectly relevant now, when the pandemic has forced so many of us to
stay home, surrounded by all our stuff. (A participatory
performance/installation of the project scheduled to open at 6018North
and Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago in June has been indefinitely
postponed; a different iteration will happen in March at Roman Susan
with the sculptor Molly Roth Scranton.)
—Lori Waxman 2020-10-30 2:47 PM
