DISCOMBOBULATION: Reassembled Transmissions from the Infected Past [2020] •100-minutes •Part of the Soundworks boxset
Discombobulation: the fact of being made to feel confused or uncomfortable by something / to cause to be in a state of confusion.
Discombobulation is an exercise in audio collaging. It's subject is the Western mediascape during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic. Appropriating material from mainstream media via Youtube videos, the work documents the confusing and conflicting viral spread of information from January to July 2020. The work sets out to question the role of information technology today, examining how it mediates and shapes our lives in a highly interconnected but polarised world. Motivating the work from the very beginning was a desire to document a moment in time that was seemingly rewriting itself anew each and every day.