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Invited to contribute to a a group show with a sound installation as part of group show 'The Tainted Love Project' as The Anteroom, Otepoti, Aotearoa 2010. The Anteroom is based in a retired Masonic Lodge in Koputai, near the train tunnel.
Record player, bedroom lamp, red light bulbs, vintage speaker.
Records were found op-shop love-song records cut in half, one half flipped and rejoined. The record player set to play at half speed to produce woozy clunking, unsettling but oddly familiar love songs, incorporating the rhythms of the cut in the record hitting the needle, while settling into a melodic drone.