The Destruction Project — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

The Destruction Project

Name: Jojin Van Winkle
Department: Fine Arts
Type of research: Independent research
Funding: Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Grant 2018-19

Abstract

The Destruction Project, is a multimedia, documentary-based project, which examines the roles of destruction and it’s counterpoints of resilience in rural areas. This multi-channel video and audio installation with accompanying photographs will address: destruction as entertainment, destruction as rejuvenation (as creative/ transformative/ intuitive processes) and destruction as irreversible (as devastation/ decay).

The theatrical imagery captures the unexpected beauty visible in loss as well the beauty of renewal. The soundscape for the overall project involves interviews with women who inhabit rural spaces and their relationship(s) to “destruction” in their lives. Field recordings are intertwined with the narratives.

Contextually with this new work, I am interested in the way destruction and growth intersect with choice, change and violence (natural and human-made), impacting everyday existence. I hope to discover and uncover social implications in this work as I continue to document individuals, places and objects, revealing their stories. This research is part of my on-going practice of “listening more.”

Cinematography is at the core of my work. I use 16mm cameras, high definition video cameras and DSLR cameras. My process involves writing, observing and recording coupled with intuition.

The Destruction Project will open at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) in mid October 2020-December 2020. This multi-year project continues to evolve with the impacts of COVID-19 emerging in the narrative, adding an unforeseen interpretation of destruction.