8’ x 9’ x 12’
Audio: 60:00
Pantheon addresses how human relations and social structures are mediated through signs and objects. Viewers can sit on the lower beams where seating is provided in four places. With this gesture the audience is socialized within the structure of the work and framed as on a stage. Straight lengths of white neon illuminate the space, seating, and participants underneath and contribute to the marketplace status and collective experience of this work.
PA speakers mounted to the top beams emit a composed soundtrack compiled from field recordings, music, and spoken word. The 25 signs present 50 corporate logos that have been altered and simplified into modernists tropes where the content and specific identity has been removed. This reduces them to a morphology of color and code, mimicking the corporate landscape we inhabit. This code is a form of socialization and generates a formal set of social relations analogous to money. The signs are a selection from banks, credit card companies, oil and gas, fast food, fashion, media, entertainment, auto industries, and the military.