Presented at S-Hot, Artspace Sydney; curated by Nick Tsoutas, 1999.

Digital video, PAL, B+W, silent
Duration: 2min loop
60 x speakers + aluminium housings, speaker cable, cassette deck + loop tape – crowd cheering – amplifier, video monitor, VHS player + video loop – thronging crowd from ‘October’ by Sergei Eisenstein.

From sixty low-hanging speakers sounds of loud audience cheering is heard interspersed with passages of silence. A video monitor sits on the floor in the middle of the Artspace gallery. Video depicted on this monitor is B + W archival footage of Bolsheviks storming the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1917 lifted from Sergei Eisenstein’s film October (1928). The footage is silent and slowed down and suggests now an anonymous, aimless, though agitated, mass of people filmed from above. The otherwise celebratory cheering coming from the speakers is underwritten by a palpable unease as the audience are confronted with evidence of the dualities of the act of ‘exhibiting’.