'Erased Walls' Mediations Biennale 2010
Poznan, Bratislava, Berlin
Oct - Nov 2010
Steven Scott 'Electric City: A Modulated Image' 2010. Video projection. Looped. Silent
A real time video of a decaying neon sign depicting the word ‘Electricity’ is projected onto a wall of a disused electricity substation. The sign flickers as it dies, transforming the visual word into a physical object, no longer able to transmit its meaning in a purely linguistic form. ‘Electric city, a Modulated Image’ takes the re-iteration / re-utteration of words and the subsequent decay or evolution of their meaning, and focuses on electricity as the enabler of the infinite manifestations of these spoken and visualised word/images across international borders.
Here the temporal element introduced into the word image via the sign’s flicker, the repetition and the re-presentation of the word in this video, attempts a visual equivalent to the ‘stutter’, identifying the repeated or vibrated word as an intensifier of the foreignness in ones own language.
Meanings become extended to their limit and ultimately the spoken word is reduced to an abstract sound, the visual word to a silent glyph.
Steven Scott
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