The Telfer Gallery What Does Nothing Do? - Screening
Thu 28 August 2014
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What does nothing do? is a selection of recent artist films dealing with the relationship between magic, technology and language.
Throughout 2014, Scott Massey has been working on a project with The Telfer Gallery that takes this question as its starting point. This has resulted in various outcomes, of which this screening is one.
The project began with the purchasing of magic spells from eBay. Through this transaction the buyer receives a piece of language, but there is also the implication that they have paid for a private performance or ritual to take place and then they themselves do a private performance.
The works selected for this screening explore the notions of the materiality and the movement (and currency) of language and the role of technology contained within this act. There is also a consideration of the infrastructure that enables it. This is not a benign infrastructure, but it is a hidden one.
