Liv Moriarty’s work uses collecting, diagramming, and recording to reflect on moments, encounters, people, and ideas. Moriarty is interested in the ways things affect each other and how this interconnectedness informs how the world is perceived. By collecting and sorting information, photos, videos, words and conversations, Moriarty shows us that how we understand the world is inherently interpersonal. Her obsession with diagrams forms from this need to connect and articulate the world, through mutual understanding between components as they relate to one another.
You Are Here is a diagram that articulates the process of interconnectedness that underpins our perceptions of the world. Through connection, an idea transforms into a complex web, forming more than the sum of its parts. The viewer is encouraged to walk amongst the diagram. The lines of the diagram mirror yellow industrial markings, leading the viewer around the space and connecting the two videos. Each video navigates interfaces of perception‚ layering virtual, actual, birds-eye and first-person viewpoints, using the relationships formed to articulate something just out of reach. The collected footage zooms in and out, searching for a speculative X-marks-the-spot.
