Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,Īnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Viewers can perform their own remix of the sound piece by activating the different speakers of an abandoned public address system. The work takes as its starting point a seminal 1969 sound work, I Am Sittin in a Room, by Alvin Lucier. He recites and records the text between multiple analogue tape recorders, building up multiple sonic layers of the resonant frequencies of the analogue tape systems themselves and accumulating the auditory artefacts of background noises, frequencies, and recordings of voices until the text is rendered unintelligible. In this sound work, Chang performs a repeating text that explores the psychological effects of algorithmic propaganda and visual information overload on our belief in truth and factuality. Interactive sound piece, on infinite loop, in perpetuity. The poncho displays patterns originating from the Mohawk culture. Argote has modelled the intervention in 3D, using the Columbus monument that is in the southwest corner of Central Park in New York (in a place called the Columbus Circle). © Iván ArgoteĪrgote specially recreated an intervention he has made of different statues of Spanish conquerors, donning them with indigenous pre-Columbian ponchos in a defying and iconoclastic gesture. They have presented two virtual exhibitions, ‘END DEMO’ and ‘AFTERLIFE’, which can be viewed on epoch.gallery Turista: Christopher Columbus, Columbus Circle, New York, 2020. This exhibition features work by artists Iván Argote, York Chang, Gala Porras-Kim, Ricardo Robinson, Marton Robinson, Allana Clarke, and Conrad Ruiz on EPOCH’s platformĮPOCH Gallery is an artist-run virtual experiment.
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