Mutual Phase (Sarah Conarro and Julian Bozeman) is a collaborative practice working across installation, sculpture, video, sound, and social engagement. Our work exists at the intersection of two methodologies: Sarah's social practice (designing frameworks that lower barriers and create space for reciprocity) and Julian's temporal/immersive approach (manipulating time perception through multi-sensory environments). Together, we explore: What happens when individual perception becomes collective observation? How does time—organic and mechanical, remembered and misremembered—shape our connection to place?
We design projects as invitations—structured yet porous frameworks where communities become co-creators. A lecture series where strangers share non-professional expertise. Workshops where communities document landscapes through field recording and visual art. Installations where real-time cameras capture gestures, projecting them onto walls where past work already hangs—collapsing temporal boundaries into simultaneous visual moments. Each project combines accessibility (lowered thresholds, open participation, no expertise required) with temporal manipulation (layered projections, stretched sound, compressed space).
This intersection creates something neither methodology could achieve alone. Sarah's frameworks for participation create the container; Julian's time-bending techniques create the altered experience within that container. Accessibility opens the door; temporal manipulation transforms what happens when people enter. The result: shared vulnerability unfolds within environments where time feels different—where observation stretches, where individual actions accumulate across hours or months, where what just happened projects onto what's happening now.
Other collaborative efforts of Sarah and Julian:
