Damian Lintell-Smith
ART Habens
recorded a drum track & a few other devices. The vocal is from a type to speech program, the lyrics - Humanity is like a plague of locusts sweeping across a field of corn! I recorded the instruments being used on a hd camera, recorded some glitched visuals from a Super Nintendo & editited it together. It was finished relatively quickly. When I first happened to get to know Plague of Locusts I tried to relate all the visual information to a single meaning. But I soon realized that I had to fit into the visual rhythm suggested by the work, forgetting my need for a univocal understanding of its content: in your videos, rather that a conceptual interiority, I can recognize the desire to enabling us to establish direct relations... Would you say that it's more of an intuitive or a systematic process?
Definately intuitive, the piece refers to a certain time, place & the feelings generated by it. I think I had watched a news documentary about locusts consuming entire crops. Nothing was really concieved in terms of where the piece would go, I created the equipment before it was concieved so it could only exist within the limitations of the equipment used. The main conception I guess comes from many hours spent trial & error rewiring/soldering! Your practice is intrinsically connected to the chance of establishing an area of interplay with the viewers, that are urged to evolve from the condition of a
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