Fair Game # 2

Fair Game asks the viewer to engage with the piece by choosing and mixing music. A turntable is set in the middle of a rural landscape. Records are displayed around the landscape. Battle scenes are glued to the tops of the records, and their labels are covered so that the music played will be arbitrary and a surprise. Music alters our mental state; each record unpredictably changes how we relate to the landscape before us.


Fair Game allows us to experience first-hand the common practice of using music during war to create an atmosphere. The German army especially employed this during World War II, and its powerful effect can be seen in the film “Apocalypse Now,” when American soldiers blast Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” menacingly from open aircraft.


2014

Group exhibition ‘Landslide’; Kunstencentrum Signe

Heerlen (The Netherlands)


Dimensions: 225x175x90 cm

Materials: wood, wax and graphite, record player, sound installation, speakers, records, miniature figures

  • Art installation of a turntable surrounded by miniature figurines and large cone-shaped speakers in a gallery setting.
  • Side view of a sound installation featuring a turntable, miniature battle scenes, and oversized speakers.
  • Close-up of a turntable placed in a sculpted rural landscape with speakers and miniature figures.
  • A row of vinyl records displayed on shelves with miniature battle figures placed on top.
  • Detailed view of miniature battle figurines on a vinyl record in the Fair Game # 2 installation.