Live Simulation
Come Away With Me is a real-time simulation of an ambiguous ritual. In the midst of a seemingly vast desert storm, thirteen pigs emerge one by one from a semi-truck, each carrying a speaker playing a song from the 2002 Nora Jones album, from which the work takes its name. Each pig dances separately to their own music before joining together in a communal cacophonous procession. Examining ideas of indecipherable rituals and inaccessible intelligence, the work presents an experience of transfiguration through repetition. Although an eerie joy is palpable throughout the duration of the work, the pigs' unending labor casts an ominous tone over the ritualistic procession.
The following documentation includes installation photographs of the work at Gameplayarts in Los Angeles, CA as well as screen captures of the work.