War & Indstry in the “modern” times
Music performance and composition: Open Up? Sicker Man (2017, blankrecords)
Rivets is a critique of the progressive vision of industrial development since the 19th century. The rivet which allows the assembly of sheets and beams allows the most utopian architectural and mechanical projects, such as the Eiffel Tower, but also the construction of war machines with lethal accents. As Jean Tinguely so well depicted, the machine is an ambivalent being whose power escapes us. The rivet, a harmless element, is to the machine what the pixel is to the digital image. It is its cell and DNA. Discreet, because masked and embedded, and deafening, because assembled through hammering and constraint.
Modernity and human progress, symbolized by the rivet, this assembly part prisoner of the elements it unites, is a metaphor for the worker and the soldier, interchangeable and captive parts of structures that they weld and which ignore them.
