Gliss attempts to highlight the slippage of meaning and physical simulacra within natural and technological phenomena. Starting with the cloud, a descent takes place from hi to low, both formally through the soundtrack and light frequency and through a materialist fiction from the cloud to the depths of the mine – via Wilhelm Reich through the prism of Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting, sung by a chorus who’s voices are basic midi files, and ending with an enormous anthropomorphic lump of clay defiantly rejecting its relationship with technology. Unlikely material combinations are fused with the electrical pulse of computer technology to catalyze and transform the obsolete nature of analog media.
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Just learned of Robert Montgomery’s work. This one feels right, right now.
(*his light poem seen up top)
I shot this at Tony Oursler's Imponderalbe at MOMA. His archive of ephemera relating to stage magic, spirit photography, pseudoscience, telekinesis, and other manifestations of the paranormal was truly fascinating. These are Houdini’s handcuffs. His wife would pass him the key with a kiss before he hit the water. (Kate Bush fans - can you hear that song?)
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