Simon Raven
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A recent sculpture, 'Discspace' (2012) is a cloud of used cd's and dvd's hung from a domestic washing line/drying frame. The discs spin on currents of heat and air, casting spectral reflections and cosmic-looking shadows onto the floor and walls of the space in which the work is installed. Abstracting digital technology from its usual function might be read as a minimalist, or decorative gesture. Suggestive in form of a juke box, the piece might also create a type of 'digital silence', contrasting the visual noise of the cd's - their colours and reflective surfaces - with the hours of sound and imagery they might otherwise contain. In a parallel performance I walked up and down dragging a cd/dvd on a string, ruining its surface, whilst saying things like, 'Come on then!', and 'Hurry up', in the way that people talk to dogs whilst walking them, or to computers that seem to be taking too long to load.