Tvestroy | AV Performance

Description

The piece Tvestroy begins with an intriguing narration: “This is the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command speaking to you.” This unsettling introduction features scrolling text at the center of the screens accompanied by a synthetic voice, evoking one of the few television hijackings in 1977 in the United Kingdom by an “extraterrestrial intelligence.” Commander Vrillon warns humans of an imminent invasion, urging them to dispose of their weapons of destruction and stop following false prophets who steal their energy—which, according to Vrillon, is what they call “money.”

This media intrusion is followed by a “barcode screen,” a typical and iconic image of technical glitches from the era of NTSC analog television. The image pixelates and then transforms into a rhythmic composition of hypnotic geometric shapes that animate and succeed one another, suggesting the capture of broadcast waves by an otherworldly intelligence.

Presented on a triple-screen setup as well as a series of cathode-ray tube televisions, Tvestroy explores the connection between visual and sonic material in their extreme potential. Generated from the same source, sound and image are not merely synchronized—they emerge simultaneously: the sound is the image. Hypnotic and insistent, this “electro-video-acoustic” work immerses the audience in an environment of geometric abstractions and deconstructed rhythms, uncompromising in its intensity.