25 sec video loop installation, found footage material, 1991
PIRANHA is part of a series of loop based work, constructed from fragmenting and recomposing
footage taken from horror movies, and adding in additional sound. Short samples from the B-movie
"Piranha" (1978), particularely all underwater attack scenes, depicting unsuspecting victims, eaten
by a hungry school of piranhas, are extracted and realigned into one accelerated, haunting frenzy of
bodyparts and panic. The impression of chaos is heightend by the addition of sound samples from
the film "Predator" (1987). The installation plays back aggressively loud.
The work marks a forerunner of the cutup resynthesis video technique which eventually became
the "Granular Synthesis" trademark, from 1993-2003.
PIRANHA is part of a series of loop based work, constructed from fragmenting and recomposing
footage taken from horror movies, and adding in additional sound. Short samples from the B-movie
"Piranha" (1978), particularely all underwater attack scenes, depicting unsuspecting victims, eaten
by a hungry school of piranhas, are extracted and realigned into one accelerated, haunting frenzy of
bodyparts and panic. The impression of chaos is heightend by the addition of sound samples from
the film "Predator" (1987). The installation plays back aggressively loud.
The work marks a forerunner of the cutup resynthesis video technique which eventually became
the "Granular Synthesis" trademark, from 1993-2003.
