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Instrument for Extermination

1998
Assemblage with blower motor and dry ice
31 x 14 x 13 Inches (variable)
Worn on the back of a performer, operated to produce a fog of dry ice.

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I was asked to build a science-fiction-style backpack exterminator device for a film. The film was never produced, but I added it to my loosely defined series of instruments. The piece can be worn on the back of a performer and produces fog via dry ice placed inside a small chamber. It was, however, featured and operated in the 2019 Kea Astra music video, Medicate, along with Model for a Tumultuous Subconscious (1993), I Think but What am I? (1990) and The Game (1991).