fabricated and powder coated steel, speaker, mp3 player, hardware, wire.
Audio: 4:40
Ed: 3 18” x 12.5”
digital print mounted and framed
MORE LIGHT
September 9 – October 29, 2017
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September 9–November 12, 2017
Loren Abbate, C. P. Badger, Michael Carter, Manny Castro, Michael Genovese, Marcos Lutyens, Adam D. Miller, Christina Ondrus, Ali Prosch, David Schafer, Katie Shapiro, Astri Swendsrud, Mungo Thomson, and Landon Wiggs
http://joanlosangeles.org/more-light/
Gate refers to a movable barrier, a closing or an opening in a fence permitting passage through. William Burroughs refers to language as a mechanism of control, an enclosure, and used the cut-up technique to open it, to break through it. It allowed him to enter into the text, and access language beyond to an alternate world. Gate physically and sonically references a specific Burroughs cut-up text collage. He further cut up this particular text with a line drawing, fragmenting the text even further. Gate is based on this drawing, using it as a plan for the sculpture. The transcribed text was processed using a digital voice program. The reading program pronounces the words, but sometimes pronounces single letters or just the punctuation, depending on the way this cut-up was originally created.