WATCH | Dane Mitchell On Exploring Vanishings, Extinctions and Future Solar Eclipses
As part of the BEYOND Program for Melbourne Art Fair, Dane Mitchell presents Future Eclipse (transmission) (2023) and Future Eclipse (broadcast) (2023), a collaborative sculptural work created in collaboration with Japanese musician, Keiji Haino.
The Fair spoke with Dane about his large-scale sculpture, working beyond the physical in the form of radio waves and why the ‘unseen’ can often be a seething presence. Dane’s work for the Fair is represented by The Renshaws’ (Meanjin/Brisbane).
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Future Eclipse (transmission) is comprised of a brass antenna which functions as a FM radio station, producing a field of transmission that stretches beyond the visible — extending the boundaries that artworks traditionally maintain by entering the FM ‘narrowcasting’ bandwidth as a transmitted radio signal, spreading itself thin and wide across the airwaves.
The broadcast from Future Eclipse (transmission) is captured and broadcast by a coupled object, Future Eclipse (broadcast). This work functions as a receiver and makes use of surface transducer speakers, which turn brass discs into speakers, through which the transmission can be heard.
The sound broadcast from Future Eclipse (transmission) to Future Eclipse (broadcast) is a 6 hour composition produced by Dane Mitchell in collaboration with seminal Japanese composer and musician Keiji Haino. The composition is produced from one list among the hundreds built by Dane Mitchell for his work Post hoc, which is made up of unfathomably long spoken word lists which call up vanishings, extinctions and disappearances. The list broadcast in Future Eclipse (transmission) is titled Future Solar Eclipses, and reads the dates and times of future moments when the Sun is eclipsed over the next 3000 years.
Keiji Haino’s percussive accompaniment to the list is performed on a ‘two dimensional’ instrument which enfolds and at times subsumes the reading. Performed on a Polygonola — an instrument built and devised by Naoki Sakurai that is based on second dimensional vibration theory which produces undertones that vibrate and at times swallow whole the reading of the lists. Throughout the reading, Keiji Haino’s summoning of vibrations — in theory and practice — seek to both incapacitate and complicate the logic of list making, whilst ratcheting up the anxiety eclipses once caused.
Melbourne Art Fair takes place 22 – 25 February 2024 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Tickets are available here.
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