Robert Storr writes of “the exaggerated social and aesthetic incongruities upon which contemporary culture is predicated.” 1) Fissured social, political and aesthetic times form the basis for the installation, Malfunction Junction.  The piece addresses this cacophony through pictorial, light, sound and movement. The rollercoaster, a long popular amusement based on the inherent uncertainty and potential calamity of all forms of motion, seats its passengers as close to fear as it does to laughter.  The ride offers a suspension from the hierarchy’s rules, those that suggest that, if followed, all might be “stable, unchanging, perennial”. Through a barrage of image and sound Malfunction Junction suggests a carnival for the dispossessed, a state of uncertainty, a counter-response to the idea of a pure and unified whole.  Embracing the spirit of carnival Malfunction Junction revels in this uncertainty and in doing so crashes the real into the fanciful - in the shape of a question.

Installation, materials include: wood structure with chasing lights, wall drawing with spiral of erratically blinking lights and soundtrack (electrical drones and clicks, re-verbed music box and punk/rock/car songs).