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While the dogs lie sleeping

By Chris Wright 2016
Standing on the bare bones of a stage, which alludes to the exhibition plinth through the inclusion of occasional perfectly painted white struts, the pink aquarium with plastic weeds and neon castle represents contemporary kitsch and alludes to the contemporary mode of gender specification. Connected by underwater microphone to a guitar amp, a concert of the sound of the inside of the bubbles plays, it is what the fish would hear! https://youtu.be/pm0P77OEajM
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