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“ a mountain falls through radio waves “

provisional statement David Haines & Joyce Hinterding 2003

We propose an installation of sculptural elements in the form of a field of functioning sound producing live antennas that provide the soundtrack for and motivate the motion a large cinematic video projection of a digitally rendered snow covered mountain that is in a state of ceaseless Avalanche.

The more radio energy from the surrounding environment that enters the room, the more frenetic and violent the fall of rocks and snow becomes down the mountains craggy black ice slopes.

A scene of intensely sublime violence, it’s as if the mountain is erupting, shedding its skin and bursting forth in a terrifyingly beautiful spectacle. An avalanche that is entirely determined by the spray of the surrounding electrical energy and communication data that is pouring into the installation space via the antennas. A mountain, whose image has not been made with a camera in some far off exotic location, even though it appears entirely real, but made up of data and mathematical equations in motion.

Through a field of the strangest looking wire arrays hanging from the ceiling we see the luminous video apparition on a wall behind.

If the Antennas bring into the installation the electro magnetic energy of the surrounding environment – the frenetic energy of the pervasive magneto-scape of telecommunications, surveillance systems, satellite communication, mobile phone carrier frequencies and financial deals being done, it seems obvious to connect this sound to the unceasing spectacle of the erupting artificial mountain as metaphor for a world in flux, a world under threat, a world where nature cannot and will not ever be left alone while mankind endures. The work becomes uncanny because the viewer will have a sense that the incoming signals are complicit with an act of nature as a choreographed event.

On the surface, all of this might seem like some kind of science fiction, that there is something extra-terrestrial taking place in this particular scenario,” a mountain falls through radio waves “.   One might also ask oneself, how much of the world has been caused to literally implode on the back of the carrier wave of a radio signal, sent by powerful people in the name of war. Does not the entire fate of the world live on the back of a communications carrier wave.

Our work in a sense is a timely meditation on this kind of trouble and inhabits the tidal line between the artificial and the real, the visible and the invisible, the dark and light. We believe this work will become through its contemplative beauty and powerful motions and sensations, a kind of window into the mystery of this invisible sea of human energy.