"Flow" (2019) is a site-specific 18-minute performance and multi-video installation held on November 9, 2019, in Sesquicentennial Park, Houston, Texas. Flow was commissioned by the Aurora Picture Show. 

The performance includes three 5-minute videos depicting natural bodies of calm waterways, waterfalls, and abstracted images based on waves sequentially projected onto stairs, a screen surrounded by rocks, and a bridge wall choreographed in sync to original music by Jake Sandridge.

 Vocalist Katie Loff leads the audience through the dark with a battery-powered lantern, singing operatic tonal sounds as well as hissing sounds mimicking crashing waves. Before and after the performance, all three areas display looping videos. (The video on the stairs depicts close-ups of rain drops hitting a rooftop. The video on the screen displays storm clouds and close-ups of rain landing on asphalt. The video on the wall depicts the life-sized singer holding a lantern while her dress sways. Her figure is superimposed on a close-up shot of rainwater beating the ground, which is layered over another shot of rain falling on tree branches.) These videos accompany Sandridge’s soundtrack of steady rainfall. 

Note: The day of the performance, the waters of the actual bayou flooded up to the bottom of the stairs meeting the edge of the filmed water, creating an eerily realistic scene, reminiscent of Hurricane Harvey.

Eight separate films play roughly 5 minute loops in rooms throughout the bungalow. 

Photos : Nash Baker. 

A second event was held March 22, 2019.

 

Installation view at Cherryhurst House , Houston, TX