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| Amputee (2000) Digital video [still] |
This is a work that assumed that the body possessed no two parts that
operated at the same rate - of physical scale or ratio of time. The
experience of waking up with a dead limb - as if it had turned to a
prosthesis overnight or had been dipped into death - is transferred to
the entire body. The body is therefore absent but death is not present.
The figure is amputated: making reference to
out-of-body experience, ghost engrams, the transference of disease and
information, apocryphal tales of the remembered sensations in lost
limbs.
Dream signals appear to hum and burst throughout the piece in
unpredictable patterns of sound. These signals seem like the obsolete
feeds of analogue tapes as they load batches of computer data, as
feelings - perhaps genuinely remembered, perhaps fake - fluctuate, flare
and disappear.
