PEEKSKILL EVENING STARS

Technical Sheet

Title

Year

2015

Dim

approx 900 x 450 x 900 cm

Technique

Video animation, 5 channel projection, dur.: 2 min, 30 seconds

Exhib.

Peekskill Project 6, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, 2015

Notes

Created for the Sixth Edition of the Peekskill Project, Mastrovito’s installation "Peekskill Evening Stars" is a fivechannel video-animation. Inspired by the local newspaper The Peekskill Evening Star, whose inflammatory editorials caused the Peekskill riots to break out in 1949. Referencing the riots, the video shows four men shooting towards each other from all four walls of the room. After a few seconds of silence, the men will look at each other and instead of shooting at each other they will now shoot a long series of shots towards the ceiling. The ceiling now depicts the disposition of constellations that could be seen from Peekskill on August 27th 1949, the day the Peekskill Riots began. Mastrovito points at the possibility of turning something violent into something positive, something bright like an infinite series of stars.

Technical Sheet

Peekskill Evening Stars, videodocumentation

PEEKSKILL EVENING STARS, installation view at Peekskill Project 6, 2015