Satellite for the Blind

2016 | Manipulated iPhone video | Sound | Infinite Loop

Three billiard players receive incoming questions via radio transmission from three (unseen) children whenever a billiard ball is struck.

The constant rotation of the camera around the room in conjunction with each child’s query regarding life on an international space station is presented as an analogy to a satellite's continuous orbit around the earth—hence there is no beginning or end to the questions posited by the children.

Actor Rebecca Lee Bower in multiple guises uses a different accent for every answer—creating a disparity between her reliability as a witness to the cosmic sights she describes and the nineteenth century interior setting she inhabits as a faux blind person.

The dialogue is derived word for word from a live
radio interview between vision-impaired Australian children and an American astronaut residing on the international space station that was broadcast in 2011.

Its appropriation as a transmission interception is situated within a wider context of what constitutes ‘outer space’.

Post Production Sound Collaborator Brie Trenerry

Exhibitions & Screenings include

2017 Very Unco Torrance Art Museum, California USA, curated by Ian Haig

2016 Double Blind First Gallery RMIT University, Melbourne

2015 Braille Script Prints exhibited in Re: Location The Lock-Up, Newcastle NSW, curated by Critical Animals for This is Not Art