Satellite for the Blind

2016 | Manipulated iPhone 6s video | Sound | Infinite Loop

Three billiard players receive incoming questions via radio transmission from three unseen children whenever a ball is struck. As the camera continuously rotates around the room in a seamless loop, each query concerning life aboard a Space Station circling the earth accumulates without resolution, following an orbital logic in which there is no clear beginning or end.

Actor Rebecca Lee Bower appears in multiple guises, adopting a different accent for each response—creating a disparity between her reliability as a witness to the cosmic sights she describes and the nineteenth-century gaming room she inhabits, performed as a blind figure, further complicating the relationship between perception, authenticity, and setting.

The dialogue is drawn verbatim from a 2011 live radio interview between vision-impaired Australian children and an American astronaut aboard the International Space Station. Reframed as a transmission interception, this exchange between interior and exterior spaces aimed to raise questions about distance, mediation, and what might be understood as ‘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 Re: Location The Lock-Up, Newcastle NSW, curated by Critical Animals for This is Not Art [Braille Script digital prints]