Mount Weather
Single Channel Montage of 3-Channel Video Projection
2006/2007/2020
06:50 min
Dimensions: 1280 x 720 px
Mount Weather is a single channel montage version of The Road to Mount Weather, a 3-Channel video projection that first debuted in 2006. This single channel montage, itself, is based upon an edit that was uploaded to YouTube in 2007. That YouTube edit was cut to a recording of chanting from The Church of the Universal Triumphant. Even though that audio recording is not in the video Mount Weather, the rhythm and cadence of the chanting has informed the structure of the montage.
The Road to Mount Weather is a personal artifice assembled from ideas and images found across the environment of the internet. The topography of the project is excessive, flat, quasi-random, and circuitous. A refashioning of the formal presentation and organization of this information was necessary in order to create, afresh, a view that was both personal and dramatic. The reconstruction of the landscape was built to create a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories concerning martial law and shadow governments found across online sources. These alternate, paranoid possibilities provide glimpses at spectacular realities behind the presented banality of power and its truths, but at the same time verge closely to demagogic rhetoric that propagates itself similarly, albeit with more accepted faith. My intent is not to propagate such emotions, but to bring them closer to a singularity of absurdity, reversing the fear and anxiety towards a (albeit limited) sense of control with a sense of humor.