Laurel Woodcock
Crossed Wires
March 15–April 14, 1996

Undercurrents brings together three recent video installations by Laurel Woodcock; pink noise (1995), vinyl(e) 1995, and the i of the storm (1996). The works act as mediators between technology, popular culture and our individual subjectivities. Technological forms of communication that people interact with in their everyday lives are diverted in these works to accommodate desires and new ways of speaking, rather than dictate and detect them. Empathy and humour are employed as both empowering and disquieting devices. Wind currents, electrical currents and current trends within popular culture are all at play in these installations.