One More Time with Feeling
// Audio-video Installation + Drawings + Text, 2014 // Solo exhibition, The Drawing Room (RIP), Edmonton, Alberta //
One More Time with Feeling is an exploration of earnestness, irony, and the failure of communication, staged as an audio-video installation, text intervention, and drawing series. At its core were "screen tests"—local performers sang karaoke, but only their silent, searching expressions were recorded. These raw, unsung performances were then re-edited and set to a new soundtrack, composed by Jessie Beier, and exhibited alongside visual and textual works.
Suspended between too much meaning and not enough touch, One More Time with Feeling lingers on the plane of impotency—where words fail, time stalls, and gestures struggle to transcend cliché. What happens when we try too hard? When irony betrays sincerity? When our attempts at knowing miss the joke? Somewhere between semantic grief and resistance, this project asks if, and how, we can ever truly let go.
Illustrations for One More Time with Feeling