Black noise is a multichannel video project and video installation series that questions what it means to exist within a space subtly shaped by the constant rebuilding and destruction of both culture and land, and asks who gets to tiptoe the line between appreciation and appropriation. 

White noise, although it is taught to us as abstract, calm, passive, quiet, and sophisticated, is in reality something that is loud, destructive, and rebuilds off the backs of the ill-fortunate. Black noise is a revolutionary act. Either seen as a distraction or destruction, when in reality it is loud. The ill-fortunate that exist outside of this white noise exist as a signal of confounding constraints;  constantly pushed down and attacked, yet produce blackness and “black noise”, black art, black music, black culture. “Black noise” is the reality of vibrations that can crack and disrupt culture, and of the “appeasing”, evasive white noise.

The installation depicts a concrete slab with a self-portrait of the artist staring out into a natural landscape. What the artist is staring at is multiple records, suspended at eye level in the installation space, displaying archival video footage that calls into question what it means to exist within competing white and black noise and space.