HITS AND HABITS
HITS AND HABITS is a series of 3D-animated audiovisual works in which the sound of discarded objects reflect upon the absence of human beings. As posthuman music instruments, the abject remnants of these objects play themselves.
CRYONIC HONKY TONK, 2023 – HD video, 2 channel audio, seamless loop, 1 min
BOOM BOOM BOOMERANG, 2023 – HD video, 2 channel audio, seamless loop, 1 min
POST DEATH ELECTRO SOUL, 2023 – HD video, 2 channel audio, seamless loop, 1 min
SOFTCORE BOOGIE DOOM, 2023 – HD video, 2 channel audio, seamless loop, 1 min
The everyday objects in consumerist lives are extensions of immaterial selves in the material world. The acquisition of shiny new objects brings a feeling of fulfilment and enhancement for a limited period of time. As long as the objects are new, you identify with them. Once they are old and worn out, you still identify with them, but they no longer fulfil and enhance you. Instead they infringe upon and diminish you. Suddenly you want to get rid of these objects. HITS AND HABITS imagines the sound of each object to be its soul, bringing the objects back to life, turning them into posthuman music instruments that begin to play themselves.
SCHERZO FOR NO HANDS, 2023 – video stills
SCHERZO FOR NO HANDS – exhibition view, Deltahaus Rosow, 2023 (photo: Rocio Gauna)
