Stations of Aural Phylogeny
1998

These sculptural aperati are components of an ongoing project through which I have been constructing a fictive museum of useless technology. The STATIONS focus upon a central image of a childs ear. These silver bromide images are integrated into a compound structure of glass lenses which house, as well, fragments of morphological texts, backlit by a single refridgerator bulb. Taking original phylogenetic charts developed in the nineteenth century by the natural philosopher E. Haeckel, I have redrawn my own maps of genetic lineage and history and incorporated them into these viewing devices. Scattered randomly around the site of exhibition, the following text accompanies the work.

Stations of Compulsive Aural Phylogeny Common application: Sites used for the transmission of useless Information.

Open Space
Victoria