Video,
Performance,
& Installation by

robbinschilds,
A.L. Steiner,
& AJ Blandford

Music by

Kinski

Photography by

A.L. Steiner

C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience)

A movement-based video piece by robbinschilds and A.L. Steiner, C.L.U.E. uses original choreographed language as a vehicle to explore the natural and human-made landscape. It embodies a poignant freedom in the unification of humanity and the vast natural world, juxtaposed against the contemporary tendency toward consumerism, waste and disposable architecture. The variegated landscapes featured in the film express the potential iteration of geology, with the performers costumed in the seven colors of the rainbow, which represent the wavelengths of the visual spectrum. The natural variety of locations provide a rich array of environments spanning from salt flats and high desert to redwood forests and rocky beaches, through dry river basins and vast parking lots, to suburban swimming pools and green lawns.

Utilizing a focus on the distinctive partnership between the two characters in the film, Robbins and Childs are portrayed as supremely united, creating a bond through which their shared experience of a vibrant color field is symbiotic with one another and their surrounding environments. The duo is repeatedly reincarnated in each color of the rainbow, making their path across these symbolic landscapes and implementing unsuspected secret passageways between the geographical and historical distances. Emerging from the ocean into the Home Depot, falling through an office park esplanade into the desert to hand out their memos among the yucca. The video references the grand trope of the great American road trip, as it has been exercised again and again, from Lewis and Clark, to Jack Kerouac, from the 49'ers, to the Okies. From the digging of the Eerie Canal to the paving of the LA River, this is a journey we travel as Americans: making our way west, and pulling the east with us as we go.

C.L.U.E. [video] will premiere at Taxter and Spengemann gallery on March 24th, 2007. C.L.U.E. [live] will be presented in the fall of 2007 as a full evening-length work including video, installation, performance and a live original score by seatle based band, Kinski.