The Bad Feel Loops
The Bad Feel Loops
2019
Dimension variable
16mm film transferred to digital, 4 channel sound, 2 screen video projection.
filmed on 16 mm film and shot on the kent coast this work was commissioned by Science Gallery
London for the exhibition On Edge, Living in the age of anxiety, the quadraphonic soundtrack
combines atomised fragments of voice, modular synthesis and field recordings, the film is edited
and animated digitally and projected on two large screens to conjure the sense of being inside the
work.
The constant information overload many people experience as part of everyday life can be seen as
both a potential trigger and a metaphor for the experience of anxiety. The Bad Feel Loops uses the
language of noise, feedback, rhythm and repetition to invoke the feeling of anxiety, and invites the
viewer to stay with the difficult feeling until it becomes an almost ecstatic experience.This work
attempts to give form to the subjective experience of anxiety from within , and explores the
potential value of staying with the experience of chaos or crisis, rather than trying to silence it
review in Apollo magazine
