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Demon Trap
Installation with poet Peter Finch |
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| Demon Trap Installation |
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U.K. Year Of Literature, Swansea, Wales, UK. 1995 |
| Client: | TU.K. Year of Literature |
| Size: | 18' x 12'x 10' |
| Materials: | 30 vacuum cleaners, timers, lights, reams of paper, varnish, graphite, sound recording, wood and carpet, |
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| The Demon Trap was partly inspired by an old Welsh
tradition of the Sin Eater. The Sin Eater was hired at funerals to
absorb through salt and bread the sins of the deceased. The other source
was through the Jewish tradition of confounding the demon by the break
down of words and language. Peter Finch contacted poets, writers and
artists in the UK, to participate through sending of postcards listing
their personal demons. He then collected these and broke down the
structures to create a spell that we both recorded and performed that
became part of the installation. Hoover vacuum cleaners has their main
fabrication plant in Britain, in the adjoining town of Merthyr. The idea
of sucking out the Demons through the vacuum cleaners that were wired to
switch on together, became a humorous parallel of the Sin Eater. The viewers
are encouraged to leave their sins in the space. The walls are plastered
with deconstructed words, part of the introduction of the spell is burnt
into the carpet.
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All Photos by Beckett Logan |
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