unfinished business     new work for old IT equipment

shunt lounge under London Bridge station
SEP–OCT 2007
by invitation of Mischa Twitchin
with thanks to Armin Bobsien

unfinished business assembled text, sound and video objects on a variety of equipment from dumps and/or reclaimed from offices by EX-IT (Elephant Jobs / CRISP / offers) at the Elephant and Castle with the assistance of Armin Bobsien.

In general, those objects have things in common with the ones described by Graham Harman, especially in the striking analogy with steam powered music machines proposed in 'Tiny Calliopes' (Circus Philosophicus, Ch 3).

They can be considered in relation to the famous image of Michel Serres, where points in time are drawn on a handkerchief, which is then wadded up in somebody's pocket.

While relying on defunct equipment and recordings of moments that are past, the objects of unfinished.. extend the lives of their components in unexpected ways.

If they are memorials, they are interested in memory in the ancient sense of the term, which designates a presence to the plurality of times and is thus not limited to the past [Michel de Certeau: The Practice of Everyday Life, p82, note 7].

In that sense, they anticipate the assemblies of live streams for reveil / soundcamp