In this work nine recordings featuring performances of John Cage's composition 4’33’’ are played simultaneously, merging with the ambient sonic environment of the installation itself. Composed in 1952 Cage’s score instructs performers not to play throughout three movements that together last 4 minutes and 33 seconds. However, each musician performs and interprets Cage's piece differently some dictated by a stopwatch, others through improvisation and therefore the duration varies according to the individual.
The installation features multiple performances mediated through technology with split screen video and nine speakers delivering separate audio channels for each rendition. Visual counters draw our attention to the time disparity of each performance. The work frames ‘silence’ or Cage’s "absence of intended sounds” within performance environments experienced by audiences over decades shared with that of the contemporary viewers to the installation.
Single channel video, nine channel audio, 7.00 mins, 2022
A son-et-lumière audio visual installation that channels the spirit of John Henry Pepper. Scientist, inventor and director of the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Professor Pepper was a prominent figure in Victorian London. Renowned for his theatrical showmanship, he staged phantasmagoria and patented a visual illusion that became known as Pepper's Ghost still widely used today in theatres, museums and galleries. This manifestation of Pepper's Ghost utters lines by Wordsworth urging us to set aside science and art in favour of nature.
Single channel video, stereo sound, 6.17 mins, 2020
Installation at Safe House, Peckham, London, 2020
Audio visual work in three phases each featuring anonymous sightseers gazing away from the viewer into the distant landscape. A journey into the fabric of the photographs where the viewer submerges into grain, dust & scratches whilst encountering digitally mapped textures.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack composed on analogue synthesizers and digital audio workstation. As the audience travels further into the image’s materiality each scene dissolves into the next becoming an eternal continuous loop.
Single-channel video, stereo sound, 5.14 mins, 2018
Installation at DFA Fine Art Showcase, University of East London, 2018
Stills from Long View, 2018
An arrangement based on duration, intensity, pitch and timbre, Tools is a montage of VHS tape clips and audio samples. An experimental sequence attempting to maintain auditory flow whilst ignoring typical composition or melodic principles.
Single channel video, stereo sound, 1.37 mins, 2018
Tools
Stills from Tools, 2018
Journal is a dream-like video sequence repeated on a loop. The work examines a moment of conscious detachment made apparent through the intrusion of the digital world into daily life felt when recording a home movie. The installation features three different computer generated voices narrating accounts of the production process, deconstructing the procedures used to make the work.
2 channel video projection (recorded video and live feed), 2 x stereo sound, 8.26 mins, 2018
Journal [ excerpt ]
Tightly edited clips of digital television transmissions glitched during an electrical storm. The work refers to the photographer’s activity of cataloguing and archiving batches of images.
Single channel video, stereo sound, 2.13 mins, 2018
The bridge in this film (Pont de Ré road bridge at La Rochelle, France) visually sweeps above our heads and serves as a literal and metaphorical link or connection between two states. Variations in playback speed and split colour channels overlaid on one another create an oneiric quality and a sense of motion aftereffect (MAE). The footage slowly washes in and out eventually disappearing altogether. The soundtrack is comprised of a whispered voiceover designed to elicit an Autonomous Median Sensory Response (AMSR). Asynchronized subtitles conflate elements of the Lord’s Prayer with compliance phrases encountered on the internet such as, “Come let us agree / Give us this day our daily feed / Thank you for choosing this opportunity / To receive your message / Add us to your friends list / As it was in the beginning / So it is now / As it will be / For ever and ever / No thanks / I Agree.”
Single channel video, stereo sound, 5.18 mins, 2018
