Blue Yodel #4
a. Zang Tumb Tumb…
b. Gadji Beri Bimba…
c. Bel Au Hau…
2012
Three cyanotype photographs, 20x20cm
Found rocks displaying geological as well as emergant geometric properties are photographed and rendered using the cyanotype process. Though collectivley one work, each of the individual photographs take their names from the first lines of promenant Dada sound poetry.
This work forms part of the onging Blue Yodel series, more information about this series can be found here.
Blue Yodel #5 (Holmes/Watson)
2012
Performance lecture
Text sampled from the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle is coupled with images mostly pertaining to the minimalists of the 1960s. Though the text is lifted from statements by both Holmes and Watson, the plurality has been edited to form a singular schizophrenic monologue.
A PDF of the lecture notes and images can be downloaded here.
This work forms part of the ongoing Blue Yodel series, more information about this series can be found here.
Translation in B-flat
2011
Durational performance
Produced in collaboration with Koen Sels.
A prepared text is read out by its author and translated directly into music by a violin player, thus stripping away any linguistic value, leaving only melody and rhythm.
A PDF of the text can be downloaded here.
Installation views: How to Stay Awake, Novylon, Antwerp.
Surface Tension (After Barthes)
2011
Found photograph 9x14cm (framed: 39x49cm)
A white silhouette of a bubble cluster hovers over the central figure, an error in processing, compromising the image’s surface, turns it back into an object with real depth, as opposed to the illusory depth (of field) of a photograph.
Collider (After Earl and Horace)
2011
Durational performance
After starting a tune at the front of their house, banjoist Earl Scruggs and his brother Horace would walk in opposite directions around the building until they met half way to see if they were still in time.
Appropriated and performed in a gallery setting this act is randomized so that the space between the two musicians is constantly expanding and collapsing and thus accentuating or compromising their interaction. The process becomes a meditation on the idea of rhythm revision, repetition, temporality and coherence.
Installation views: The Second Act, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam.
Ever Since the Watermelon
2011
Four framed dye prints on archival paper, 60x40cm (framed: 80x60cm), edition of 3 + 1
An image of a darkroom safe-light is reflected in a developing tray. The images form a rhythmic loop, permanently arrested in the darkroom process.
Installation views: The Second Act, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam.
Supernova
2011
Two Kodak slide projectors, timer
Two identical Kodak SAV slide projectors synchronised to activate the slide change mechanism every 30s.
The Pipes of Manhattan
2010
Print and publication project
Dimensions variable
An archival photograph of physicist Robert J. Openheimer is paired with a text taken from a Sherlock Holmes story regarding a pipe as a piece of evidence. Holmes muses over the pipe and its construction just as his own pipe is used to muse with.
Publication from: Institute of Lost Research, SITE, Köln.
KY123 (Sunrise)
2010
81 colour slides, slide projector, timer, light sensor, projection foil
80 different Kodak products were photographed in daylight as close-up slides so that a solid plane of colour fills the frame. Owing to the inconsistency of Kodak’s iconic yellow (Pantone 123) across its product range, the slides were then able to be ordered from dark to light so that a clear progression in hue takes place as the carousel rotates. Programmed to begin at sundown, each slide lasts for 6 minutes meaning that an entire rotation of the carousel takes 8 hours. The installation switches off at sunrise.
Installation views: Mikro, Dusseldorf.
