ALL MY HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE ALIBIS
Installation views, Southfirst, New York
2011
2011
Perspex, steel, Plasteline modelling clay, guitar string, guitar tuner, silver screws, wax, fingerprints, dust, thread, lacquer, wax
99 x 76.2 x 33 cm
Capricorn's Children (fur, carved)
2011
Photograph, c-print
Framed, 38 x 30.5 cm
Capricorn's Children (wooden high base)
2011
Photograph, c-print
Framed, 25 x 20 cm
Capricorn's Children (plasticine face)
2011
Photograph, c-print
Framed, 25 x 20 cm
Capricorn's Children (clay figure)
2011
Photograph, c-print
Framed, 25 x 20 cm
Capricorn's Children (stick, base)
2011
Photograph, c-print
Framed, 25 x 20 cm
Capricorn's Children (clay, geometric)
2011
Photograph, c-print
Framed, 25 x 20 cm
Objcts (doll)
2011
Photograph, c-print
Framed, 38 x 30.5 cm
Objcts (wire and structure)
2011
Photograph, c-print
Framed, 38 x 30.5 cm
Objcts (blue character)
2011
Photograph, c-print
Framed, 38 x 30.5 cm
2010
Glass wax, guitar string, wire, audio, headphones
23 mins 23 seconds
68.5 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm
The sound element from The Invention of the Devil.
2011
Steel, MDF, Plaster of Paris, triangle, aluminium sculpture wire, thread, wire, lacquer, wax
165 x 35.5 x 18 cm
2011
Concrete, Perspex, guitar strings, guitar tuners
61 x 48.2 x 15 cm
2010
Resin, IBM UNIVAC reel-to-reel computer tape, wood, paint, screws
140 x 24 x 24 cm
2010
Guitar string, alabaster, charcoal
28 x 15 x 15 cm
2011
Rubber, steel, guitar strings, guitar tuners, lacquer, wax
122 x 122 x 170 cm
2012
Plexiglass, steel, resin, wire, yo-yo
158 x 28 x 22 cm
2011
Screen print, paint, steel, glass, lacquer, wax
110 x 63.5 cm
All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis at Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, presented a series of maquettes, models and experiments that took composer Morton Subotnick’s sound work (the first on the outdated technology of the CD-Rom) as a starting point and turned it into a series of works that played with ideas of sound as object, improvisation, parameters, materiality and the influence of folk and African/tribal art on the development of sculpture, especially the work of Max Ernst. Morton Subotnick had himself been inspired to create the compositions by looking at Max Ernst collages.
All works started from a logical examination of materials and their limits. The materials included clay, resin, rubber, computer tape, steel, guitar strings, wax, glass, plasticine, wood, alabaster, plaster, paint and charcoal. Evans then used these conclusions to discuss sculptural interests such as interdependence, the body, structure, narrative, sound and technology. The way these materials connected with the themes was discovered through improvisation and play, similar to how the sound work was initially made.
Link to the music from Morton Subotnick’s CD-Rom, All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis.
