SUICIDE LOOPED OR SPEED IS A (NUMB)ER

Single Channel Digital Video Loop on DVD.
Stereo sound.
Sampled from Suicide’s “Dream Baby, Dream".

Facing the horizon, a thin line tracing the boundary between the ocean and the sky, seems to expand our field of vision. While traveling, speed replaces movement through geographical space, and gaining ground becomes only a repetitive exercise. Speed numbs us. In this world, what we term ‘field of vision’ concerns optics, and approaching the horizon is replaced by the mere act of traveling toward a ceaselessly dissipating, infinite dream. Dream Baby, Dream. We are caught in a program, or rhythm, coded to loop forever. Keeping our eyes on the horizon prevents us from decreasing velocity, skipping a beat. Were we to look back or to look down, we would slow. An unexpected wave crashes over us. Another overcomes us. Look away, and we drown. Suicide. Suddenly our path curves downward into the dark. Aware of our weighted body, feeble heart, and permeable skin, a deepening fear overtakes us. An instant later, still falling, an opposing current reverses our trajectory and directs us above water, just enough to see, and eventually realize, that if there is a rhythm and this is a program, the loop must be larger, and more complex, than we can imagine.

Suicide Looped, or Speed is A (Numb)er is just an exercise. Infinity is just a loop. The horizon is just simulation. Suicide is just the name of the band. Dream Baby, Dream are just the words to the song. The water responds to the amplitude of the sound waves, and the waves respond to a code. The code is just a (Numb)er.
The video is projected to fill the whole wall of a dark room. There are two speakers (left and right) for stereo sound.

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