3-6 September, 2024
Nativity presents the prior technologies of home entertainment in a mystic and nostalgic configuration, where the technological structure and historical origin of the compact disc are framed within the biblical narrative. Arranged as in a traditional nativity setting, two modified DVD players stand like crowns or halos within an apparatus of projectors, lenses and glass.
With the players and projectors enmeshed together – in light, sonically and electrically – the scene mutates. Governed by the mechanisms and imagery of circular and infinite motion; optical transfer; encryption; the internal language of the DVD player is directly translated into the harmonic music that accompanies the installation, which speaks in tandem with the light of the H.264 video compression standard. Samples of the composer’s voice, and instruments from youth, render the resulting polyphony.
Rob Durnin (1997) is a composer, sound artist and performer from the UK. Living and working in Denmark, his output spans from multidisciplinary works to installations, performance art and instrumental compositions. In his practice he often fixates on the architectures of common consumer technologies and instruments; manners of interaction with these objects; apprehending them through the lens of the mystic and esoteric. Rob studied composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.
platform BUNKER 