In ‘Shock Hazard’ (a warning for electric shocks as printed on electronic equipment) Sjanet Bijker investigated non-musical sound and its effects on a given space. In a public performance she pronounced Dutch spatial-linked words like ‘space’, ‘reflection’, ‘echo’ and ‘experience’ in a microphone that was connected to a pair of old-fashioned tape recorders that delayed the sound. The bathroom-like sound effect of the space where the exhibition took place (which was a former stable), deformed the words even more. This work was combined with two paintings. In each work two orthogonal pigmented surfaces, a gray one and a white one, were connected by the repeated writing of an arc of a circle with a graphite stylus. The transportation of pigment on the canvas surface had a natural ending when the binder was dry.

Groupexhibition: Starters III / Shock Hazard
Kunstonderneming Oosterkade, Groningen, The Netherlands
December 2003/Januari 2004