17 / December
2011
Toads mouth
The Visual Sessions - Pete Karkut - Toads mouth
The sound in this piece is its backbone and hops from languid to crisp to anguished to incidental. Are the cafegoers greedy consumers or lost and hungry animals? The jangle of different sounds, the tension between sounds and images, and the lack of human onscreen presence all evoke the mood during the riots successfully, as well as opening up thoughts on the cause of these riots and how they reflect society. The riots and their background served to alienate chunks of society from one another, and a fragmented society is encapsulated by this footage of a garden. The artist’s struggle with MS is also well illustrated. One thing I found striking was that not being able to see people caused me to question whether the soundtrack was made at the same time as the footage-I could never be certain in my assumptions. I was never quite secure.
Samantha Penn
The sound in this piece is its backbone and hops from languid to crisp to anguished to incidental. Are the cafegoers greedy consumers or lost and hungry animals? The jangle of different sounds, the tension between sounds and images, and the lack of human onscreen presence all evoke the mood during the riots successfully, as well as opening up thoughts on the cause of these riots and how they reflect society. The riots and their background served to alienate chunks of society from one another, and a fragmented society is encapsulated by this footage of a garden. The artist’s struggle with MS is also well illustrated. One thing I found striking was that not being able to see people caused me to question whether the soundtrack was made at the same time as the footage-I could never be certain in my assumptions. I was never quite secure.
Samantha Penn