2018. Acrylic, rawhide, clay, vinyl, 1/4" instrument cables, steel guitar strings, infinite sustainer, water, hardware, audio.
to know a chimaeric greeting by the ringing in your bones is an artifact in a future museum; it refers to itself as a restored relic in an exhibit of human evolution, cataloguing the adaptive speciations undertaken by Homo sapiens towards underwater survival.
Drawing from the phonatory apparatuses of cetaceans, the abstracted jawbones of a human/baleen whale hybrid extrapolate the vibrations of vocal chords and machine clicks into a chimera humpback song.
The object is accompanied by an audio recording of the manifest of the Voyager Golden Record, deformed through algorithmic processes to produce a barely-intelligible parody of the source material. to know a chimaeric greeting asks after communication at the end of oral language and speculates upon the persistence of human legacies beyond a species-wide shift into a barely-human existence.
Exhibition view at Speculative Skins, co-curated by Rachel Vera Steinberg and Ben Crothers at The Naughton Gallery in Belfast, Ireland. On view February 15–April 8, 2018.
Exhibition view at Speculative Skins, co-curated by Rachel Vera Steinberg and Ben Crothers at The Naughton Gallery in Belfast, Ireland. On view February 15–April 8, 2018.