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(Collaboration with MG) 2020
(Collaboration with mgmgmgmg, group performance, November 6, 2020)
mg: meat glitch
g: gyrating
M: Murmur
MG: Mother Goo
MG: Tox
The work reflects our shared interest in world building, alternative cosmology, experimental lorecraft, and situated transgression. We have integrated video, musical improvisation, drag performance, noise, light, wet materials, spoken word and written word, and embodiment practices. (words by Paul Boye).
photography credit: Eden Barlow
photography credit: Eden Barlow
photography credit: Eden Barlow
photography credit: Eden Barlow
"User-Friendly"
2019
Reacting with either programmed hostility or affirmation via neutrality - either eradicating those deemed an inconvenience or a threat, or allowing those deemed safe to pass – a chain communication occurs within “User-Friendly”. Exploring terrain mapping technologies and devices used to eradicate undesirable natural phenomena, "inputs" displayed upon the screen pass through a programmed analysis that favours the human travellers, resulting in a suitable response from a giant bug zapper followed by an autonomous vehicle. The sheer commonality of these technologies has resulted in a user friendly yet sterile environment, taking the form of a pervasive wave of cold artificial light, digital beeping and motor-based whirring.
Disrupture: an Exhibit
2018
Investigating the process of display, dissemination, digestion and consumption of information, Disrupture: an Exhibit presents visions of a utopian or perhaps dystopian existence amongst digital autonomy, simulation and hyperreality. Flickering seductively, the audience-interactive television, camera and audio based installation utilises mass-produced agents of simulacrum. What remains is not a pixelated carcass, but gorgeous colony of maggots writhing in the convoluted terrain of simulation and reality excess.
The work thus serves as product of - as well a metaphor to - an epoch defined by technological “legitimators”, dictators of realities that perpetuate a limitless corruption of data and therefore an unbounded quantity of idealised
perceptive variables. Juxtaposed against that which it documents - the live exhibition - the work operates as a sacred and eternal producer of irrealities. Disrupture: an Exhibit seeks to expose such simulator mechanisms and their inability to fabricate the authentic to interrogate the contemporary techno-faith condition.
Images by Samuel Beilby
"Don't Forget To Self Regulate"
2018
"Don't Forget To Self Regulate" is a single channel "quasi-video" work. It consists of a small television displaying flickering static with red paint stencil applied to the screen, accompanied by three VCRs. The work is designed to greet viewers upon entry to the gallery/exhibition/institution space. Ideally being exhibited at an entrance to the public space, the piece aims to elicit a tongue-in-cheek reference to the foucauldian principle of panotopicism, operating as a more literal mechanism to evoke a self-regulation of behaviour.
Image by Fraser Young
