I was invited to respond to
Are jee be?, Haroon Mirza's 2014 show at The Irish Museum of Modern Art. I made this performance, a live reading accompanied by various audio and video clips. I called it a media essay.
Samples for ears and pixels for eyes begins with
Neil Young's Pono media player, considering the implications of the way its marketing video dealt with perennial issues around the perceived perceptual differences in digital and analogue audio playback systems. This is followed by a teasing out of the ideas of analogue-ness and digital-ness. Towards the end of the performance, an argument is made for
Bruce Springsteen's I'm on Fire as a marker of the transition from a Fordist (electromechanical) paradigm, to a Post-Fordist (electronic/digital) paradigm.