Gooner/Gamer/Drone Operator (1)
Reclaimed steel, lead siding, cables, vinyl, HVAC parts, tar, resin, vaseline, iron paste, canvas, muslin, dead computer parts, truck lifts, rafter baffles, glass LEDs, cable sleeves, sensor, physical computing, subwoofers, desktop trash, fans, cable grip, pig iron, audio
Photography by Paloma Dooley
G/G/DROP is a sculptural sensing environment. It reads as a compromised enclosure, the archeology of a gooner eschaton, the bombed drone op RV. Like an abandoned cave where the accretion has grown from the drips of the power grid, it’s been left so long that the mold has evolved and the fish have no eyes.
A continuous infrasonic field holds the space until the viewer gets close - they are registered, scanned, and rejected. The vibration drops into silence, releasing the viewer from its crosshairs, unwanted, not even prey. We remain noise, escaping legibility, sensed but not seen, or captured.