Installation of 5 ‘music’ videos in a specially constructed, ‘acoustic’ space with silver, insulated sound-traps and red safety lights. Dimensions Variable.
In all the videos in Audiopathological, the sound and image are structurally interwoven. In these works, the artist attempts to reconcile the materiality of video and audio through recording and editing processes.

Videos (all with sound) included in exhibition:

‘Music in trees’ - 2001 (3.55 min.) The artist harvests cassette tape from the branches of a tree. The soundtrack is made from the found tape, randomly reassembled. The video edits reflect the spliced and damaged and tape.

‘I want to dance’ - 2001 (5.44 min.) Lyrics by Californian artist Charles Gaines were set to music by Sonofapup with vocals by Georgina Starr. The video records the fractured reflections seen in a spinning mirror-ball. First commissioned for the exhibition 'Song Poems', curated by Steven Hull.

'Ronnie and Jimmy' - 1998-2001 (5.29 min.) Ronnie and Jimmy focuses on the relationship between partners or double-acts as reflected in genres of cinema and entertainment. It references the moral binary of ‘good and evil’ as well as exploring the banal schemes of shared company. The characters engage in a mysterious ‘stakeout’, whilst conversing on helium and also furnish the soundtrack with an improvised drum-battle. The project was begun with filmmaker Martin Shiel, but the use of masks enabled numerous artists to contribute to the final film.

'Ipanema En-suite' - 2001 (3.12 min.) Filmed in a hotel bathroom in Ipanema, Brasil. The chance discovery of tap-heads which resonate like bells lead to this video of the taps being played by the artist. The footage is ghosted, or overlayed with a second video exploring the bathroom in detail.

'Tropical Taxi Trip' - 2001 (2.29 min.) Audio soundtrack from a taxi-ride during a tropical storm in Sao Paolo. Stuck in traffic, the driver jests wih his controller whilst heavy rain drops rsonate on the roof of the car. Originally only an audio recording, a digitally generated video acts as a placement for the memory.

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