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AO ROBERTS

HELPFUL THINGS

A large gallery with dim light, a dark blue painted wall with multicolored signs, a stack of box fans in the foreground.

2012–2014

Hi! Fidelity — A series of signs for sign twirlers, generated using autocorrected anonymous online workplace complaints

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Column of Heaven — A sound sculpture featuring a voice incanting a dictionary of homophones through a stack of house fans

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Helpful Things — 8 min video and book compendium.

Three large commercially printed signs sit atop a shelf leaning against the blue grey wall behind. The signs are covered in bright multicoloured fragmented lines of text full of spelling mistakes and nonsense.

Hi! Fidelity

Vinyl on coroplast, autocorrected anonymous online workplace complaints. 22’ x 7” x 14’.

Column of Heaven

Fans, power bar, amplifier, mp3 player, sound recording of recitation of a homophone dictionary, extension cords. 88” x 24” x 48.” A recorded voice is amplified through two back to back stacks of fans that drawing air from behind to blow forward, creating structure out of a vacuum.

Helpful Things

Video, artist's book compendium. 8 mins. 2014.

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