Metal God
(1999)
Metal God disintegrates a story of disintegration. Story
of a trapped body which hallucinates an escape. Ultimately,
only the imagination is free to wander and the body remains
stuck. Beth Greenspan's text is animated throughout, and loosely
interpreted in sound and image.
The text was originally entitled "Praying To The Gods
Of Office Ceiling Sprinklers On Juniper Street" and originally
published in the book In the Realms of the Unreal: 'Insane
Writings', ed John G.H. Oakes (Four Walls Eight Windows, New
York, 1991). it is here used by permission of the author.
CREDITS
concept, dance, sound, video: christof migone
choreography: tammy forsythe
text: beth greenspan
assemblage and streaming: yves labelle
typography: fabrizio gilardino
Special thanks to the media arts section of the canada council
and the western front thanks to henry see, sarah toy, rebecca
scott, geneviève heistek, richard cyr, all beta testers.
The cdrom includes:
Metal God (1999)
war on painting (1996)
the tenor & the vehicle (1995)
sign language (1995)
cow mechanics (1996)
sometimes stitches are necessary (1996)
Metal God was originally a performance created by Tammy
Forsythe and Christof Migone and presented at Espace Tangente
in Montréal, February 25-28, 1992. The elements seen
and heard on the cdrom are culled from the original performance
and from a series of audio and video recordings done by Tammy
Forsythe and Christof Migone in the summer of 1997.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom, Nickle Arts
Museum, Calgary, Fall 2001.
Images du Nouveau Monde, Québec City,
March 2001.
Montréal International Festival of New
Cinema and New Media (FCMM), Fall 2000.
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