CYOA Rhythms is a 2-channel video installation exploring ’alien nation’ themes — aliens, alienation, alien integration — which characterized and catalyzed the mindscape and soundscape of the Caribbean, and subsequently Caribbean carnival cultures. Similar themes have been mirrored in the US-UK inner-city immigrant communities of the 70s-80s where rap and hip-hop became the locus of inner-city social transformation. The video installation takes its aesthetic cues from the scratch video movement — video collage projections in 80s London/NYC nightclubs, constructed from popular TV, imbued with politically subversive meaning. An exploration of issues of post-memory and intersectionality through intertextuality, this work examines cyclical repetition in migration, globalization, community friction and artistic intervention.
