AN ANCIENT
AND
TRIBAL ART
© Owen Premore
An Ancient and Tribal Art, 2006
72 x 134 x 194”, Installation
Found materials, found and fabricated electronics, amplifiers, desk, typewriter, guitar neck, remote controls, gauges, motors, telephone, flooring, ink and pencil on paper.
Overview showing the desk, typewriter, a wall of speakers and amplifiers, and the installed flooring. All sounds in this piece are activated and deactivated by participant interaction.
Circular shapes on the floor are switch plates that trigger sounds on a drum machine.
A player Guitar
Remote controls play like an electronic keyboard
Dials and gauges slowly turn on 1/3 rpm motors and the sounds of their movements are amplified.
Pressing the numbers on the yellow note pad, activates a found audio program that is broadcasted through the telephone handset. The Audio program contains “information” on Pluto when it was perceived to have been a planet. Pressing the button on the inside of the handset turned on a voice modulator that made the participant’s amplified voice sound like an “alien”.
A small gallery under the desk displayed drawings related to this installation. The paint on the “walls” was removed from a featured gallery at the hosting institution; important places are where you make them.
Silkscreen poster that accompanied the installation.
