S t u d i o F i v e B e e k m a n

sound and intermedia gallery

Christof Migone

Crackers

a continuous multi-media installation featuring bodies cracking their joints

Saturdays

2 - 9 PM

January 22 & 29, 2000

videostills by Christof Migone

Do you crack your fingers? your neck? your back? your knees? your elbows? your ankles? your hips? your jaws? your toes? your...?

A joint is the locale where bones articulate a tension. Crackers are compulsive about the release of that tension. A crack is incontinent. A cracker too. As the sound of the cracks echo, some wince, others feel relief. A crack is a body nonsequitur, a crack is a bone edit, a crack is a broken break.

Crackers was featured in "Site of Sound: Of Architecture and The Ear" edited by Brandon LaBelle and Steve Roden (Errant Bodies Press, 1999).

Christof Migone is an artist and writer currently based in New York City. His latest solo CD "The Death of Analogies" is available from ND (Austin, Texas), his next release will be "un sperme qui meurt, de froid, dans les draps, en agitant faiblement sa petite queue" as the duo Undo (with Alexandre St-Onge), first release on the Montreal-based label, squint fucker press.