DETOUCH [excerpt], 2018 by fer boyd

DETOUCH [2018], Fer Boyd and Alice Channer, 9 minutes 13 seconds [excerpt 3 minutes 26 seconds]. Voiced by Fer Boyd and Alice Channer, produced by Fer Boyd

In DETOUCH, vocal material becomes the permanently rolling surface of a tank of industrial grade PVC. The narrative of a text - written by Boyd to creatively document the production process of the sculpture Mechanoreceptor, Icicles [red, red] [triple spring, triple strip] by Channer - is formed into a single, breathless moment. Two racing, machinic voices digitally fray and stretch, their subjectivities curdled, never pausing for the pleasure of anticipation or to re-consider pain. The materiality of the red, liquid plastic (which coats the 210 s t r e t c h e d and jigged aluminium fingers that comprise the sculpture) becomes a portal that can be pushed and dipped into - suggestive of a new, super-unreal life incubated in synthetic plasma. The fraying digits and opiate voices speed headily through complexities of authorship, worldly creation, the history of fingers and tangibility, and the idea of losing touch - of losing your grip. [Text by SHELL LIKE]