As a cultural icon, the 1955 Shure Microphone can be said to symbolize ‘the golden years'.  In this work, the microphone housing contains a bright piercing light that casts a large shadow reminiscent of a metal mask or ribcage onto the wall. Periodically at random intervals, the light flickers like a bulb casting its last rays of light; it is the silent noise of social realities and the suppressed voice. 

The glowing light and skeletal shadow cast by Triplight tell parallel stories of its time and mirror our own, beautifully revealing contradictions in the silent stutter of its unstable light.
"Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech (in many instances, of complaint or indictment) and an element in a dialogue." Susan Sontag, "Silence", 1967.

The flickering light was also inspired by the use of ‘glitches’ in contemporary music and how this ‘noise’ can be used to represent a psychological state, conceptually reflecting the unstable negotiation between the experience of the body and its struggle for articulation.

The word 'triplight' refers to a trigger that sets off a state of alarm.   It also refers to "trip the light fantastic", a historical reference to a type of dance, and more recently a state of hallucination.

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  EXHIBITED

  2019. I Can Hear You Dream. OCAT Shenghai.

  2013. Soundings-A Contemporary Score. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.

  Press highlights include:
  The New York Times
  The Modern Arts Podcast
  National Public Radio (NPR) interview experpts

  2012. I Wish this Was a Song - Music in Contemporary Art. Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway.

  2011. Inca House, Detroit Michigan, U.S.A.

  2009. To See is to be Heard, Heine Onstad Museum. Oslo, Norway.

  2009. Camille Norment - Trip Light, Solo Exhibition, September Gallery, Berlin, Germany

  
  

  COLLECTIONS

  The National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, Oslo, Norway.