Double colour monitor installation + amplified sound. Looped.

Two monitors are stacked on top of each other, each showing a hand around the shaft of a sledgehammer handle. The hand & its mirror image, insistently and suggestively bang in a relay which moves in and out of sync. The resultant double image and sonic 'conversation' is repellently compelling.

This and recent works explore the fact that even the simplest acts may become a performance. We continue to expand the proposition that, “video’s real medium is a psychological situation” (Rosalind Krauss) - as well as being a physical onslaught, in this case.

This work refers back to 'A hammer speaks' (2005) - Part of the 'live', mechanised sculptural installation we made for an abandoned factory space on Osborne St for the first GI, where we created a charged environment which incorporated: a sledgehammer handle suggestively banging the floor (alongside a suspended wall moving, almost imperceptibly and a length of scaffolding circumnavigating a room, at neck height).

More recent relationships can be drawn with 'Handheld' (2019) [Radar 6628] and 'Contest' (2022) [Radar 7928].