20 -30th June 2007
DON’T LOOK GALLERY
Dulwich Hill
Sydney, Australia

Solo exhibition, sound installations by Jen Teo. Built in a day, the exhibition pieces together old analogue technology plus whatever junk we could find in the galleries store room.

Floating
This cute old record player magically floats in the centre of the room…


Aurora
The rotating motion of the colour wheel moves a small suspended rod. A mercury switch attached to the rod turns a speaker on and off. A small radio tuned to classic fm which is run through an effect pedal is hooked up to an amp and then the speaker. Moving perspex rods reflect the light from the pin spot…this is the test, it looks better with the lights off.


Fishing Rod
The turntable powers the see-saw motion of the fishing rod. A mercury switch is attached to each end of the rod causing the speakers to turn on and off. Instead of paper we now have rice in the speakers that jumps about each time the speaker is turned on…just a bit of silliness.


Glue Loop
A little blob of glue causes this old record to loop…don’t you love it - Click Go The Shears sung in Japanese…a floor mat size switch turns the speaker on and off.


Reel-Two-Reel
One tape, Two reel-to-reels, two sets of speakers…


Media Release:
Last year Dave O’Donoghue was invited into Don’t Look Gallery and given eight hours to create an interactive audio monster from the stockpile of analogue equipment out the back. He successfully made a fragile, but amazing machine that relied on the interdependence of its components for continued existence.This year, sound artist Jen Teo has been invited to do her interpretation of a sonic Frankenstein. Morphing reel-to-reel tape recorders, fluorescent lights, timers, record players, movie projectors, old television sets, radios, amps, speakers a variety of circuitry and numerous doo-dads, and wochamacallits, Teo will make a truly awe-inspiring rhizomic creation.A physical web of circuitry, Teo’s monster will encompass the audience, turning passive observers into vital components. Just like O’Donoghue, Teo will be making both a profound statement about obsolescence, and a captivating spectacle that will play on our minds long after the puzzle pieces have been severed from the collective and returned from whence they came.