Given our bubbly lifestyles and collectively straight-jacketed potatoes,
this hallowe’en we thought fitting to share a livestream of Parallax Chambers
- an unrelenting cycle of punishing animations
churning outwards indiscriminately from the CPU brain into the ether.
Relish in scenes of restraint and cartoonish suffering in the horizontal comfort of your abode
or drive-thru or barn.
Facebook Live: https://fb.me/e/3D2wWYPuD
Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/y46av4b6
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dedxterboney
This will be a 3-hour program involving a livestream of the work.
Tune in/out anytime.
PST: 8 pm - 11 pm EST: 11 pm - 1 am HKT: 11 am - 1 pm
By conflating the anarchic universe in martial arts fiction with current socio-political turmoil, Parallax Chambers wrestles with the creeping suppression of voice and thought. The spectre of geopolitical surveillance further agitates my practice that has long demonstrated a compulsion towards confronting superstition, paranoia and inherited traumas.
The constant, live-rendered output of this work churns out an elastic sequence of animations. By ceding the narrative agency to the algorithm, Parallax Chambers raises formal questions about order, and whether harmony can emerge from seeming chaos.
The piece cycles relentlessly through a series of confined rooms – recalling claustrophobic urban space and hermetic chambers depicted in martial arts fiction for internal training and meditation. This motif of fragmented loops within bound environments has gained new resonance amid recent global conditions of isolation.
single-channel algorithmic animation sequence
2018 - ongoing
Programming, Sound Design & Music: Remy Siu
Animation: Anna Firth, Chhaya Naran, Kodai Yanagawa and Roxanne Zagar
Additional Sound Design: Paul Paroczai