Jocelyne Prince, Lint Ball AKA Static Virus, 1997

33 old televisions are tuned in to static. White noise hisses loudly from each TV. A blanket of dryer lint from public Laundromats covers the entire sphere, only to expose the static patterns of the TV sets through oil filled lenses.

This work engages the idea of the domestic as a potential danger, as a virus. Domestic material such as lint and televisions coalesce into a bizarre and science fiction-like joke/nightmare. "Static Virus confronts our Neo-Victorian, post-Scientific Age by suggesting our implacable awareness of Big Science's failed utopian quest to sterilize our world from viruses is part of our one-dimensional fear bred form misunderstanding the role of viruses and dust as the best carriers of information and instigators of change." (Adams, Erica -- This Side UP no9 2000)

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