Le Sabre

Lynda Benglis

1986

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A black and white photograph featuring a close-up view of building corners. The buildings appear as white and light gray colored geometric shapes against a back quadrilateral background.
Untitled, from the series "Baseball" [Sammy Sosa], David Levinthal, Polaroid (Polacolor ER Land Film print)
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The video installation St. Cecilia comprises the following: two video projectors, suspended from the ceiling, each projecting separate (one left, one right) side-by-side videos that meet in the center. The videos are on two DVDs that play on Pioneer Industrial DVD players. Also hung from the ceiling are a pair of "Audio Spotlight" speakers, each playing separate soundtracks; the tracks can be heard clearly only when standing directly beneath the speakers. The videos are synched with a Dave Jones synchronization unit. The two videos contain footage of a choir singing, as do the soundtracks. All of the aforementioned equipment was acquired specifically for this piece, per the artist's instructions. A subwoofer speaker, placed at the wall directly beneath the projected video, plays the low end of the soundtrack(s), making the choir's voices audible, but the words indiscernible, as one approaches. A floor rug is positioned beneath the speakers, both to aid acoustics and to tacitly lead audience members to stand on it (and therefore discover and listen to the separate soundtracks).