Anahita Razmi
Scroll stock, pluck stock, click stock, drum stock, tap stock, rattle stock, 2020
Seven-channel HD Video installation
Loop
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
scroll stock, pluck stock, click stock, drum stock, tap stock, rattle stock focuses on hand movements and technological devices, composing a choreography using online stock footage videos of scrolling hands...
scroll stock, pluck stock, click stock, drum stock, tap stock, rattle stock focuses on hand movements and technological devices, composing a choreography using online stock footage videos of scrolling hands and fingers. These stock footage videos are created in order to be deployed by companies who want to show the navigation of their online content by inserting this content into the green-screen.
The work explores and searches for new ways of navigation through reframing these stock footage hand movements, which are seemingly intuitive and internalized by now, by applying a new “non-fitting”, “exotic”, “oriental”, “othering” sonic connection to them. A connection to musical instruments – tapping, plucking, scrolling, swiping, clicking, rattling: How do we touch a touch screen? How do we touch a drum or a string instrument? What possible modes could destabilize the dominant languages between technology, touch and effect?
The work explores and searches for new ways of navigation through reframing these stock footage hand movements, which are seemingly intuitive and internalized by now, by applying a new “non-fitting”, “exotic”, “oriental”, “othering” sonic connection to them. A connection to musical instruments – tapping, plucking, scrolling, swiping, clicking, rattling: How do we touch a touch screen? How do we touch a drum or a string instrument? What possible modes could destabilize the dominant languages between technology, touch and effect?
