Graeme Miller and John Smith  |  Beside the A-side

"Caught in the branches of trees, lying in puddles, wrapped around street signs and satellite dishes, discarded audio- tape is the tumbleweed of the technological age."

Caught in the branches of trees, lying in puddles, wrapped around street signs and satellite dishes, discarded audio- tape is the tumbleweed of the technological age. It is material that immediately evokes curiosity; how did it get there? Who lost it? How? When? And what might it contain? 

Beside the A-side, a series of site-specific video installations is a collaboration between the composer/sound artist Graeme Miller and film and video artist John Smith, which develops ideas first explored in their video Lost Sound (2001). Each work is built around the contents of a single strand of discarded audiotape. For new territories, the artists scour the streets around the Arches until they find a strand of tape. This chance discovery becomes the basis for the work, which documents the tape fragment and its environment and juxtaposes this material against the audio found on the tape. 

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• nrla  |  sat 22 feb, 12h00-20h30