Erin Single
Media artist, designer, educator



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Selected
  1. Snail dance
  2. Lavatoi
  3. Dust warning: Does Albemarle know about this?
  4. Fear is a virus
  5. Negative tides
  6. Have you ever been to an ocean?
  7. Bleached
  8. Cake piece
  9. (upcoming) No one is coming to save you but the fireflies


Project 03



Dust warning: Does Albemarle know about this?
Video installation and performance
Year: 2021


Still from video projection.

Performance documentation.


Installation view. Laser cut salvaged wood and metal air vents.
Two Califone record players, four-channel analog mixer, two speakers, projector, Millumin, 45 rpm vinyl records, two tables, seven desk chairs, carpet tiles, landline phone.



Dust warning: Does Albemarle know about this?
Two-screen video installation and performance
Dimensions variable
In March 2021, I visited the only active lithium mine in the United States, in Silver Peak, Nevada. 

My MFA thesis project was an artwork that explores our contemporary dependency on the metal lithium. Lithium is the lightest metal on Earth and an unseen material in most of our electronic devices. It is vital to our everyday consumption and creation of digital media.

The multiscreen video installation and performance explores landscape and liveness in a lithium mine. Using aesthetic strategies and character-based performance to estrange a site of extractive capitalism, the landscape opens itself to alternative imagining.

The Silver Peak lithium mine near Tonopah, Nevada. 
Performance documentation.

Still from video projection.

Installation view.



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