Both sound and image are transmitted wirelessly from primitive hand built circuits, revisiting explicable technology. Deliberate corruption and reversal of the pleasure producing apparatus of mass media communications. It is a post apocalyptic cargo cult idol, a technoshamanic divination tool, a lab grown abomination shrieking its way into places it should never be.
A pattern emerges, a periodicity of sound and vision. The hypnotic interplay of sound and image, complementary binaries, ebb and flow, the analogue, evocations of Tesla, robotics, radio art, noise. The work is generative procedural, auto-poetic, it is the thing itself, non-representational. It is the three legged theatricality of the extraordinary, the anomalous object, the do it yourself audiovisual entelechy.
- Motorised pendulum fitted with 3 radio transmitters, 3 microphones, 2 mini cameras with two TV transmitters
- 2 Televisions with antennae receiving signals from separate pendulum mounted camera and transmitter pairs
- 2 radios receiving signals from pendulum mounted microphones via FM transmitters
- 2 projections receiving direct camera signal from 2 mini cameras mounted in front of television |
fustigate vb. (tr.) archaic. to beat; to cudgel
hierophant n. a person who interprets and explains esoteric mysteries
Fustigation of the Hierophant is a warning system
Pete Gorman 2008
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