Sirens

The Sirens is a new sound and video installation incorporating 16mm, super 8 and video, as well as guitar amps and a "slide" show. In this work, Henricks continues to explore themes that are ever-present in his practice: sound and music, textual elements, repetition and the body. A series of slides reveals the text: "when we hear the voice, we move to a place without words. Time is denied both future and past. We move sideways into the moment. Firmly and comfortably inside the body." Henricks locates the body within sound, the physicality of sound and its reactions and effects on the physical. Extreme close- ups of technology related to sound recording and production reveal this relationship: a hand places the needle on the record, a UV meter quivers, acupuncture needles seem to tremble and water ripples rhythmically from sound vibrations. Henricks makes sound visible, revealing and looking at its effects and interactions; speakers pulse at low frequencies and guitars tremble under knives making sounds and sensations that linger in and outside of the physical.

EXHIBITION Gallery 44 (Toronto), March 13 – April 12, 2008