VAST: Visiting Artist & Scholar Talks

Narrative Half-Life is a continuing series of creative-nonfiction media artworks that co-mingle and complicate family histories as told to me by my grandfather, Lt. Colonel William Sapper, who was a Manhattan Project engineer during the Second World War. During the war years, Bill made sound recordings of friends and colleagues, documenting original jazz music, limericks, and labor poems as well as conducting interviews as a part of the secret atomic culture that was the Manhattan Project. This talk features recently conserved sound recordings that seek to reveal how familial memory, state secrets and personal archives have greatly influenced me as an artist over the course of my career.