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Contingent Ceremony

By  Alexis Rago 2011

the artist

Dimensions
size variable, audio 11mins 1sec

Using the object sculpture as an organisational device, sacred and secular notions are disrupted and reconciled by alternating low frequency sounds and more conventional recorded material. The result is a negotiation between physical responses to the work and its rational intentions.
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Everlasting and Impermanent

Reliquary

Emperor

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