Performance interface
Live performance (FIBER festival, Amsterdam, 05-17)
Installation (Tongue Fest, Glasgow, 09-17)
Cassette release (VIS, 03-18)
Installation (The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, 11-18)
Live performance (UNFIX, CCA Glasgow, 03-19)
“Hell Is Empty is an audio visual installation and performance piece that uses modern alchemical means to attempt to transmute the basest material possible into gold. Taking as its source the basest raw cultural material available – in this case the content, code and graphics of the lowest-common-denominator / alt-right spawning / ignorance-promoting / intolerance-supporting news website Breitbart.com – the piece uses all the constituent parts of the site to break it down into something more palatable. The php code of the site was scraped and converted into raw data to generate audio information; numbers from within the code were assigned to midi information to create musical patterns; articles from the site are read dispassionately before being broken down into something akin to glossolalia (speaking in tongues), which some consider to be the true treasure of the Templars, a true universal language; and finally, the visual imagery of the site is broken down during browsing using an algorithm taking data from the code of the site itself. During the performance, data is taken live from the site itself and manipulated in real time, whilst light sensitive cameras use the light and motion of the degenerating video – and the participants and audience’s own movements – to control and generate further audio.”