HOT MELON NEST :: Jake Northrup + Estefania Velez Rodriguez

12.1.18

Cunsthaus

Cunsthaus presents Hot Melon Nest, an experiment in human absorption and understanding. A collaborative experience between artist Jake Northrup and Estefania Velez Rodriguez in which both artists blend their dualistic perceptions of the world into a singular auditory and visually stimulating experience through video, animation, soundscapes, and two-dimensional work. Through the blending and layering of opposing information, they roister in the overlap of synchronized experiences, as well as transform their desynchronized experiences into a new form of understanding. Resurrection is a concept that is played with, as they revive past experiences into new forms of entwined life; as well as play out head trauma, psychological states of unrest and complete ease, delusions of grandeur, euphoria, archaic symbolism, self-deprecating humor, and field recordings of their immediate environs. All this is in an effort to answer questions about how we experience our lives when in harmony as well as when broken or healing.