May 29th, 2026
Hole In The Wall
Hole in the Wall
Created by Anna Friz with Pamela Rodríguez-Montero
9-channel immersive sound installation (yes, you are invited to crawl on your hands and knees into a hole in a wall).
Premiered as part of the group exhibition The Wet and the Dry, curated by Andrew Smith at The Lab, 16th Street and Capp Street, San Francisco.
April 11-June 27, 2026 Open Fridays and Saturdays 12-5pm
I have lived in more than one apartment where eventually animals moved in too: rats in the subfloor and under the bathtub, raccoons in the interior walls and the attic, a Jerusalem cricket hissing in the living room behind the curtain. Lately pocket gophers engineer the underground all around me, tunneling underneath my apartment and throughout the meadow outside. Holes are part of building and neighbourhood infrastructures, and some creatures travel easily through them. Typically, the animals that are adapted to life underground are often considered abject or disgusting, but rodents and worms and insects bear unique relationships to decaying and composting matter, and they find shelter in the small tight spaces in the dark corners of human life as easily as underground.
In classic myths, a human descends into the underworld in search of a lost loved one. The mortal protagonist finds their way with the help of various guides but the everyday reality of going underground actually requires material transformation, through technology or metamorphosis. How would a human need to transform physically in order to visit the potentially vast world of creatures and organisms that live in the dark of the earth, to reach the underworld and the lands of the dead? How will you know the dead when you meet them?
A hole in the wall is an invitation to rodent space and a curiosity about adaptation and visitation. The piece is part of a suite of audio works reconsidering metamorphosis and the underworld.
Hole in the Wall is a production of the Burrow of Investigation.
