Anonymous and Improbable Destinations (2016) HD video, 4:22 min, Installation View
Liz Wilson
the orchestrated unconscious
the optical mechanical
conjoining the effect of the real
the rhythm machine
the rhythm machine | single channel
anonymous & improbable destinations
void of reinforcement
kicking out
traverse
sta cca to
trust me
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The Rhythm Machine (2017) Multi-channel Video Installation, 4 min, 670 x 470cm
The Rhythm Machine
is an orchestra of modulated voices, factory transformations and animations exploring the stretch of time between the industrial and post-industrial. Utilising animation as a way of simulating the rhythm and tempo of the machine, the work takes on the aesthetic of early computer graphics, which is played in relationship to footage from a Victorian Ropery. Further employing the use of mechanisation within the work, modulated voices simulate the individualised rhythmical energy of each apparatus. These disembodied parts become orchestral when playing simultaneously, participating at various tempos and pitches. These pulsations of movement generated by both human and automata recapitulate and evolve, acting as reverberations - conversations between the old and new and possibility of evolution.
