a test bed
(in which) I wish I could sleep
John Manton, 2025
This table orchestrates the linkages between installed assets at SYZYGY, 13-22 Jun 2025
The analogue computer
Wool yarn. Sheet, Tyvek 1442R, 400 x 154 cm, folded in two. Traces. 6 digital photographic prints, 40 x 40 cm approx., mounted on foamboard. Digest. 1 digital photographic print, mounted on foamboard, cut into 25 sections 7 x 7 cm approx., set into painted tetra pak cartons, arranged on a wooden frame.
Elements of a bed, haunted by the memory of a pillow from a previous installation
Quilt cover, 360 x 140 cm, Tyvek Housewrap, acrylic paint, permanent ink, and snap fasteners. Sheet, Tyvek 1442R, 400 x 154 cm. Tyvek datasheets.
Eating in bed
For Kevin. A 3 minute 30 second video, projected on Sheet, Tyvek 1442R, 400 x 154 cm, folded in two. Traces. 6 digital photographic prints, 40 x 40 cm approx., mounted on foamboard. These assets were part of installations Feasting #1 (2022) and treatment : ailment How to belong at the feast (2023)
A cookbook and a recipe for its digital twin
Summer Studio 2024. A 6 minute 57 second video with sound, looped, on LCD screen. For Kevin. A 3 minute 30 second video, projected on Sheet, Tyvek 1442R, 400 x 154 cm, folded in two. A tripod mounted camera. A notebook, A5. (The camera and notebook are not permanently on display in the exhibition space.)
Slow happening
Live artist intervention on Sheet, Tyvek 1442R, 400 x 154 cm. Paint. Ink pens. A tripod mounted camera. A notebook, A5. Repeated interventions, drawing on A cookbook and a recipe for its digital twin, will be painted onto Sheet, and documented by the camera, in the notebook, and on the algorithmic processes webpage.
Feasting in the Archives 