2008

The more live it is, in fact, the more dead it is. The more lively a radio broadcast is, it’s because of the scrupulous attention that one might give preparing a corpse. Polemically, I often say radio is a dead medium. People think “Oh, you mean because no one pays attention to it.” I mean it in a positive sense. That is precisely its tremendous potential (Gregory Whitehead, Wireless Imagination 1993, 68).

Successful revolutions succeeded—claimed Marx—in "waking the dead" in order to glorify the new struggles. (Jann Matlock, Diacritics "Ghostly Politics", 2000, 53)

18 19 20 is a short by Chad Laird and Tianna Kennedy. It is a montage of electrical machinery from the creation scenes of five Universal Frankenstein films with Tianna's cello replicating and replacing both the sound effects and original musical score.

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  • 181920, Feb. 10, 2008. Tianna Kennedy and Chad Laird. For free103point9's contribution for a program of works for the Video Gentlemen’s BYOTV exhibition at the New American Art Union in Portland, Oregon. (video/mov, 5.9 MB)