Interactive sound installation
Exhibited at 'Stadium', Brighton University Grand Parade Gallery 13-31st July 2010.
'Superabled' is an interactive sound and three-dimensional artwork that is inspired by the achievements of parathletes using prosthetics. It is based around an Ossur 'cheetah flex-foot', the carbon-fibre sprinting prosthetic famously used by Oscar Pistorius and Aimee Mullins.
Cheetah feet have been in use since the mid-90's but recently became the cause of controversy when Pistorius placed second in a race against runners with flesh and bone legs. He was rewarded with accusations that the cheetah feet constituted an 'unfair advantage'.
To experience the piece, the visitor puts on the headphones, lifts the Cheetah foot and tilts it. The tilt of the foot controls the sounds heard in the headphones.
Subtle Objects
'Subtle Objects' is a series of pieces that enhance or recontextualise a three-dimensional object using sound. This might include emphasising physical or symbolic qualities of the object, or the sounds of real or imagined histories. A subtle object is one that exists in the imagination between what is seen, and what is heard.
Images: Superabled in development and installing at the Stadium show
