ENTROPY
May 29 and May 30 2009
Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA MUSE
Sound Design by Joeseph Bishara
Entropy is a performance showing the chaotic breakdown of communication when media/surveillance is mixed with the organic. Video is now apart of how we see the world. Therefore, we preserve life in containment and surviellance. Trenda explains, “When we try to define life, we begin to contain it and defy it. It grows without seeing or hearing. It exists without knowledge and gives us hope. As soon as we try to capture life, we loose the essence of what it means.” Trenda and 24 live butterflies are encased in a 9 ft. plexi glass box. She constructed a dress made out of real moss. Three video screens were connected to three cameras: one on her chest and two on her hands. The work was interactive, allowing the viewer to see an image of them selves inside the dress.