Video installation, 2005
1 min, continuous loop
Within the dimly lit confines of a room, the Headbang installation holds four video screens:
Three screens show some kind of constant stream of jagged parallel lines, representing some kind of measured activity. The loud electronic buzz from the monitors builds up a tension and the austere gallery environment implies that the audience is also involved in conducting and recording this test. Then the sound of movement from behind, the fourth screen shows the artist wired up to an EEG machine, wide eyed and strapped up, wrenches her whole body forward, like a headbanger at a rock concert. The three monitors register the corresponding violence in a mountain like outburst on these sensitive lines.