selected work
sonic/performance
Architectural sound sculpture
Stainless steel, synthesized voices, audio components
36"x6"x6" each, 7'x4.5'x43" mounted
In Zero Divide, Camille Norment continues her investigation of sound, object and the body and their intersection in fantasy and fetish. Protruding at waist height from two walls flanking a corner, two stainless steel arms face each other, extending from the walls at 45° angles. They leave a space in-between that's just big enough for a body to press into and fill the void. Looking a little like sci-fi ray-guns pointed at one another, each object contains a speaker sphere that omits an oscillating sound loop of sighing voices.
The phallic fetishes objects are engaged in each other in terms of sound and the direction of their aim, as if mutually aroused in attraction or repulsion and ready for release or annihilation. The title references what is in mathematical terms, an impossible equation. The result is 'void'; without resolution, substance, or meaning. The piece also negates the conventions of installation, sculpture and 2D works. It activates the space as an installation, without needing its own room. It uses a normally dead space of the exhibition room, but is hung on the wall like a sculpture inhabiting the space of 2D works.
In Zero Divide, Camille Norment continues her investigation of sound, object and the body and their intersection in fantasy and fetish. Protruding at waist height from two walls flanking a corner, two stainless steel arms face each other, extending from the walls at 45° angles. They leave a space in-between that's just big enough for a body to press into and fill the void. Looking a little like sci-fi ray-guns pointed at one another, each object contains a speaker sphere that omits an oscillating sound loop of sighing voices.
The phallic fetishes objects are engaged in each other in terms of sound and the direction of their aim, as if mutually aroused in attraction or repulsion and ready for release or annihilation. The title references what is in mathematical terms, an impossible equation. The result is 'void'; without resolution, substance, or meaning. The piece also negates the conventions of installation, sculpture and 2D works. It activates the space as an installation, without needing its own room. It uses a normally dead space of the exhibition room, but is hung on the wall like a sculpture inhabiting the space of 2D works.
