sound-based installation
pirated FM radio-transmission, FM radio-orchestrated sonic accompaniment, chemical-grade storage barrel, Troops™️, Atom’s Megablast™️, stereo-wire, 10-inch subwoofer, Marantz 125 stereophonic tuner, plywood.
dimensions 39” X 54” X 50”
Tuning to “The Voice of Canada”: a deployment of residual radio frequencies, leaching, demystifying Canada’s distinction of ‘Pacifist Nation’; figuring furtive ventures hosted by Radio Canada International (CBC); an array of towers, the hem between Atlantic Provinces, that hums an ambience; a chorus of Chemical Agents; broadcasting a buried secret leveled by the turn of the tide, 2022
Tuning to “The Voice of Canada”, probes the problematic of national identity, working across affective registers to mark Canada’s ongoing history of formidable (passive) aggressions. Titled after Radio Canada International’s (RCI), now defunct, array of radio towers bordering New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the work posits the country’s significant involvement in developing Agent Orange. Through the physicality of sound, and affective qualities of radiation, the work creates a sense of dis-ease as the radio’s immaterial body leaches out of containment, diffuses into the environment, and permeates our bodies.
Infamously deployed in the American invasion of Vietnam, the illegal chemicals now lay buried in the earth. Entombed in steel barrels, the agents leach into communities, altering gene-pools, ecosystems, and creating fractures in previously-thriving ecologies.
return to portfolio ︎︎︎
Tuning to “The Voice of Canada”, probes the problematic of national identity, working across affective registers to mark Canada’s ongoing history of formidable (passive) aggressions. Titled after Radio Canada International’s (RCI), now defunct, array of radio towers bordering New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the work posits the country’s significant involvement in developing Agent Orange. Through the physicality of sound, and affective qualities of radiation, the work creates a sense of dis-ease as the radio’s immaterial body leaches out of containment, diffuses into the environment, and permeates our bodies.
Infamously deployed in the American invasion of Vietnam, the illegal chemicals now lay buried in the earth. Entombed in steel barrels, the agents leach into communities, altering gene-pools, ecosystems, and creating fractures in previously-thriving ecologies.
return to portfolio ︎︎︎