SAS0071_001

2010

Height: 22
Length: 33
Depth: 22

Destroyed PowerBook, glass, mirrors, endless coloured candles, cold floor,

Artist's Studio, Stirling

Car, courier, public transport

• Indoors
• On a plinth

The work was part of an installation from a solo show presented at Edinburgh’s Embassy Gallery in 2010, called ‘Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas To Heaven’ and I was thinking a lot about the works of German sculpture Isa Genzken and the Canadian rock group Godspeed! You Black Emperor. I was thinking about sculpture as sound, and also some of the audio samples on Godspeed’s work often recording the voices of the marginalized. Genzken herself had something of a breakdown that changed her practice and I was fascinated by this. From minimalist and contained to chaotic, improvised and energetic. The destroyed computer acts to mirror an individual’s identity (it sits on two mirrors, that are the exact dimensions of A4 pieces of paper) and the title refers to some of the final things the computer was used to look at, research or reference before it broke down. The candles should eventually entomb the work in wax and self-generate some kind of formless blob though at Embassy because of the cold floor the wax behaved oddly and more chaotically, so two different kinds of technology working together that would also make reference to some of the works of Mark Handforth, a motorcycle covered in candles, etc. I was then and still am interested in how mutable an individual’s identity is and some of the materials that reflect on or contain that identity.

This work was made for my solo show 'Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas to Heaven', Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh October 2010 and was shown again at the Cave Art Fair, Liverpool, 2012

The work has live candles added to it during the presentation of the piece.

Alexander Hetherington