On Strike

(2015)

with Marla Hlady

Related works: Hit (Nuit Blanche), Hit (Saskatoon), Hit Maker (Porto), Hit Maker (Sudbury), Hit Parade, Micro, Microfall, Microhole, Millionaire (machine), Strike and Hit.

To strike on various surfaces. The machines automate the hitting that performers usually do with microphones in Hit Parade. One could say that they were built to replace performers in case of strike, but we couldn’t. In Strike and Hit both machines and performers struck on and out together in amongst the Henry Moores at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Presentation history
– Count and Strike and Spin, collaboration with Marla Hlady at the Errant Bodies Sound Art Space, Berlin, Germany, June 27-July 5, 2015
– Marla Hlady, for the Art Gallery of Ontario First Thursdays, October 1st, 2015.