Sculpture, sculpture, fucking culture, 2005

Moving Centres, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík.

A wooden construction of the reverse of a skate ramp with a ButtKicker loudspeaker inside that makes it vibrate from the noise. It plays recordings of a skateboarder, sound rising, dropping, vanishing as the skater moves across the ramp at the time of recording. When the board hits harder, the sculpture itself shudders and vibrates. Standing in front of it you hear and feel as though someone is inside, skating in the hollow body.

The work stages a confrontation: the raw, restless energy of skateboarding culture pressed into the frame of The National Gallery. Teenage noise and movement echo through the architecture of “high culture,” making the institution itself tremble.

Size. 5 × 5 × 10 metres.