University of Puget Sound
Kittredge Gallery
Exhibition by Dan Senn
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March 1994

front: Too Flutter 
on floor: The Trampoline Family
back: Out to Dry

Out to Dry

Consists of 32 photo scans of my face pressed against glass hung beneath the 
suspended frame shown in the photo. Two video run continuously behind the 
hanging photos: a color video of a mapping of inner-city weeds taken in 
downtown Tacoma in the spring of 1993 and the other, an percussive 
animation of my face as seen in the photo scans and played back over 
an old b/w television. The sound track for one video machine consists of the text 
called Appealaspeile, an account of the bureaucratic ousting of a committed artist 
from a company position written and read in a style reminiscent of Kafka work. The 
stereo sound track for the other video is a real-time feedback improvisation from 
Scrapercussion #7 made for "No Art Arts Day" in New York City in 1989.

The Trampoline Family

Consists of three "trampolines" each featuring the crushed face of three children held in a 
transparency stretched within a pine dowel frame. The rusted mesh on each trampoline 
acts as a Theremin which senses view proximity (closeness) with the resulting tone 
transmitted over piezo speakers attached to the back of the scanned photographs (the 
photo act redundantly as a speaker diaphram).

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