Old World is a three-channel video installation in which the pastoral landscape acts as the stage set for historical reenactment, collective memory, and vicarious projection into the past. Video documentation from “Old World Wisconsin,” an outdoor museum of rural history, is combined with appropriated film footage of human/animal interactions within the “frontier” landscape. The savage wild is tamed by civilized culture, only to be remembered as an idyllic past.
Commissioned and exhibited as part of a fellowship exhibition at the Institute of Visual Art, Milwaukee, WI (2004).
Videography, audio recording, editing, and installation design by Paul Amitai.
