If We Do Ever Get Any Closer at Cloning Ourselves, Please Tell My Scientist-Doctor to Use Motown Records as My Connecting Parts / Polar Soul, 2000

Room size: approximately 102 x 210 x 132 inches

Media:

Melted Motown records from mother’s collection; hand-scratched and powderized records; bacteria cultivated from mother’s vinyl records in petri dishes with soy agar; slides with various prepared Motown vinyl samples; my blood sample; cast vinyl skulls and brains; homemade crystals; crystal-inlaid 12-inch woofers; altered turntable; dissolved audiotape; dinosaur dust (Discophites gulosus); lemon and pansy butterflies; amethyst, iron pyrite (fool’s gold), rose quartz, potassium iodide, B-12, calcium, amino acids, carbon, sulfur, hemlock, shrimp eggs, sea salt, rock salt, test tubes, test tube rack and grabber, microscopes, beakers, glass and plastic vials, bottles, stirring rods, mortar, scalpel, tweezers, glass droppers, magnifying glass, eye goggles, gelatin pill, chopped drumsticks, fake flowers, polyester resin, Plexiglas, electrical parts, wiring, vinyl letters, acrylic and spray paint, homemade labels.

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The Polar Soul
Homemade blue crystals, microphones, soundtrack, video monitor, Plexiglas, plexi tubes, pedestals, Formica, vinyl lettering, live DJ performance

About the Work:

Earliest waveform recordings of blood flowing from the heart and in the brain during sleep, dreaming, and various emotional states (1874-96).3-D printed in brass-plated stainless steel; lacquered maple, 22k gold leaf; video, waveform audio processing by Patrick Feaster