Traveling Without Moving is an audiovisual installation comprised of 35mm slides (photographs and text) and an audio collage, all of which were sampled from the album art, liner notes, and music of a collection of Hawaiian and Polynesian albums dating from 1958-62.
The selected LPs are all examples of the fleetingly popular genre of “Exotica,” a slick, westernized version of indigenous music of the South Pacific, which came to prominence in parallel with the mid-20th century growth of suburbia and the expansion of tourist/vicarious travel.
Exhibited at Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (2004).
Audio collage and photo editing by Paul Amitai.
Excerpt from audiovisual installation