Foreign Correspondence - a work for sound and image, installation and performance.

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Foreign Correspondence is an ongoing project exploring arbitrary and absolute links between sound and light/image, liveness and playback. It began as an installation at Instants Chavirés in autumn 2004.

"The occurrence of similarities, i.e., the fact that there exist certain characteristics, factors, or processes that bind objects together and relate them in many specific ways, seems to be of such a fundamental nature that the psychologist Kries considered it... an expression of some basic property in the functioning of the central nervous system. Freud…was forced to the conclusion that the factor of similarity is of paramount importance in the mechanism of dream formation."

Heinrich Klüver, 1923, from: Mescal and Mechanisms of Hallucinations


"…metaphor is, in general, not based on similarity... Instead, it is typically based on cross-domain correlations in our experience, which give rise to percieved similarities between the two domains within the metaphor."

George Lakoff & Mark Johnson, from Metaphors We Live By (Afterword, 2003)