base_assets_(descent into hegemony)

saw blades, concrete, audio exciters, amplifier, sound work (5’48”)

The work ‘base_assests (descent into hegemony)’ used two repurposed saw blades, mounted in concrete blocks and amplified using audio exciters, to play back on-location recordings of interactions when striking and scraping the blades with a house brick within a former military factory in Berlin Spandau.

The piece makes reflection on the heavy industrial process and its impressions on our lives. Highlighting the imposing and at times violent nature of its aesthetic and the inescapable impact it has on our world, whilst asking how, in relation to the themes and ideas raised in the work 'A Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction' by author Ursula K. Le Guin we might view and consider a less destructive and more sustainable path forward in the route towards what we describe as ‘progress’.