An Ancient and Tribal Art, 2006
72 x 134 x 194”, installation
Found devices and materials, electronics, motors, flooring, ink and pencil on paper.
Overview showing the desk, typewriter, a wall of speakers and amplifiers, and the installed flooring. All sounds in this piece are activated and deactivated by participant interaction.
A player guitar.
Circular shapes on the floor are switch plates that trigger sounds on a drum machine.
These remote controls play like an electronic keyboard using the interference remote controls generate when placed over magnetic pickups.
Dials and gauges slowly turn on 1/3 rpm motors and the sounds of their movements are amplified.
Pressing the numbers on the yellow note pad, activates a found audio program that is broadcasted through the telephone handset. The Audio program contains “information” on Pluto when it was perceived to have been a planet. Pressing the button on the inside of the handset turned on a voice modulator that made the participant’s amplified voice sound like an “alien”.
A small gallery under the desk displaying drawings related to this installation. The paint on the walls was removed from the walls of the premiering institution’s featured gallery (this installation was exhibited in a much smaller and subdominant gallery space).
© Owen Premore
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