Staccato

sculpture • 2003

Soundless installation, 800cm

Broken disks, stuck fragments, fractions doubled by a mirror, Staccato scans the space with a sound mass of dull rumbles. 888 vinyls for string instruments : it is the idea of a closed loop, blowing up into atoms remixed around a tight cable, reflecting the trajectory of a silent graphic wave.
Like an altar set for the sacrifice of “memory”, the piece plays with the object’s physical and symbolic properties : the vinyl, recording medium of a language both universal and specific, fetishistic icon of a “Barclay” generation, is also this relic from a time passed onto the scrap heap, the waste from mass production.
Staccato sculpts the section of a cultural inheritance, weakened and recycled.

This piece to integrate the permanent collection of Mudam 2004

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Résilience

object • 2003

22 baby-foot players . bars 92cm
2 springs wire . 2 handles

Physical Remix

object • 2003

Object, vinyl, 16 X 36 cm

A vinyl E.P. is dissected by a high pressured water-jet. eRikm digs into his material and makes the reading slip, in order to compose a new syncopated variation. The art piece replays the turntable master artist’s beloved processes : boned snatches physically remixed and compiled like an unconscious puzzle.

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