Involuntary Autobiography

Mixed media: sculpture, sound, 2007

Involuntary Autobiography is a handmade vinyl player that plays an LP with documentary sounds from the town of Portbou by the Spain–France border: the railway station, the beach, rain, storm, someone practicing scales on a violin. The needle is thick, it distorts the sound and distinction between documentary and abstract; it carves its way into the vinyl, slowly ruining the sound it registers. In the end, it has carved its own track where it remains.

Installation view, Art’s Birthday, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2008.