HOW TO TURN YOUR SOLAR PLEXUS INTO A TERRORIST
A performance installation in the Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, 2004.
Directed and Produced by Boo Chapple
Designer: Arianna Wilson
Choreographer: Nic Hempel
Performers: Cheryl Wheatley and Nic Hempel
Sound and Video: Boo Chapple
Photographs: Takeshi Miyamoto
How to Turn Your Solar Plexus into a Terrorist was a performance installation located in Corrs Lane in the Melbourne CBD. Its intention was to explore the imagery associated with terrorism, the 'war on terror' and the 'state of emergency' post 9/11. The installation used wireless camera technology to manifest the relationship between body space and information space both sonically and visually. Both performers wore wireless cameras strapped to their solar plexus' as they moved within the scaffold structure installed in Corrs Lane. Video and audio transmitted were output to the five television monitors suspended in the structure. The cameras were set to transmit on the same frequency thus creating a moving collage of superimposition and interference. Performer surveilling performer, elided with images of claustrophobic urban space and interference sidebands scrolling across the screen. The audio would pick up on the occasional conversation, ghostly voices merging in and out of the data hiss and feedback scream as the performers moved within the densely electric space.
