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Animal Magnetism

Chris Woods. Animal Magnetism 1998 (detail). 100 overpainted TVs, audio, VCRs.

Chris Woods enjoys a reputation as an accomplished draughtsman and producer of experimental audio and video. Animal Magnetism unites these interests in a panoramic installation of 100 black and white television sets with over painted screens.

The interplay between indistinct video sequences glimpsed through screens of painted talking heads, and a generic audio track, generates an effect similar to "snow." Staged in this manner, television becomes a source of light and sound and a surface on which images freeze, rather than endlessly replacing one another. The viewer surveying this scene becomes the principal actor and provider of content.

Exhibition Catalogue
An illustrated catalogue with an essay by Ingrid Jenkner accompanied the exhibition.

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