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Archives - Remote Control
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[Remote Control was an audio installation that looked at the connections between our relationship to the environment and the educational system. It commented on how our present system encourages passivity in the face of contradictions, and discourages taking risks to change the status quo. Read more...]Yet it also presented hope in the form of deviants, individuals who resist the incessant programming. The installation was made up of 16 desks. Twelve were handmade of scavenged wood. Their legs were uneven and they appeared to be crippled. The top surface was covered with a tight (drum-like) skin of translucent, plasticized paper. Each of these desks had repeated text drawn on its surface: "My desk must be neat and tidy....", "I will not speak out of turn...", "I will not question the teacher....", "The policeman is my friend...", etc. The four remaining desks were actual, old school desks covered with plaster, newspaper, grass, dirt, etc. Their lids were open revealing drought-resistant plants growing out of dirt. An oversized teacher's desk sat in the front of the room with a rusty old t.v. antenna placed on skin-like paper . The audio track emerged from inside that desk. One voice talked about how everything is under control, and another voice spoke nostalgically: "But I remember what it was like to take a deep breath of clean air..." This rhythm of voices repeated in a six minute loop. The walls of the installation were painted "blackboard" green and the audience was invited to share stories of how their "education" made them feel connected or disconnected to the web of life. Exhibitions: the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Costa Mesa, the South Bay Contemporary Museum in Torrance, CA (both in 1991), and Dark's Art Parlor, Santa Ana (1994).
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