Zoe 2004
Vintage Record Player, leather drum, vinyl record
Depth 60cm x 60cm, Height 150cm
Zoe is based on the pre-cinema Zoetrope. It has a spinning slitted leather
drum, mounted on a vintage record player. A series of pictures on the inner
face of the rotating cylinder give an impression of continuous motion when
viewed through slits in the cylinder. The needle on the record is trapped
in a groove. The classical recording is transformed into a trance beat.
The animated images show a bottom being spanked. The Zoetrope lures the viewer
in, to become complicit in an intimate visual space. Zoe mimics a Heath Robinson
contraption, a salacious modification. The repetitive sound and imagery have
a sexual charge, the manifestation of a mechanical and fetishistic pleasure.
