see me! crank me! elevate me!
The audience is invited to interact with a version of the home theater machine we did. The making-of process lead us to explore pioneer mechanical techniques to display images in movement. The resulting sound of these mechanisms we set inspired us to re-create a surround sound system people can play with by moving two cranks located on two sides of the TV box. We attempt to provoke a clash between the high and low tech used assembling the machine, inviting the audience and ourselves to tackle the fetish character of the commercialized version of the home theater. The piece is a second version of one entitled: Hopprep: story teller toy, which staged inside an old TV box the dark origins of jump rope play, done as ritual reminder - in Sussex region - of the rope Judas used to hang himself.
Acknowledgements: Reinventing the television workshop with Niklas Roy
