'fractal
dread' was shown at utrophia's
night at the 291 gallery on
29.05.03.
'fractal
dread explores the recursive textures of black hair. african mathematics
discovered the implicate folds, twists and splitting of nature centuries
before western sciences of chaos and complexity. recent research in ethno-mathematics
has revealed the abstract fractal-patterning (self-similarity irrelevant
of scale) of black hairstyles as a predecessor of the networked fields of
computer culture. the wired dreadshpere of twisted, folded and looped
strands of hair undoes the progressivist history of science, placing africa
in ot the futureinstead of primivitist degree zero of linear civilization.
in
the video, these abstract patterns migrate inot the flickering folds of
vision, the rhythmic crackle of electrostatic and the tactile, almost imperceptible
dark matter of sub bass.
