two clicks
Two Clicks is a found footage video, tracing the gesture of clicking across various media and cultural associations. The “click” functions firstly, as an onomatopoeic word, being applied to various events and situations that involve the click sound. Using the form of a click – a touch that transforms its object into another surface, the video work unfolds in layers of clicks.
The video starts with Miriam Makeba's iconic 'click' song as a representation of resistance to racial violence and ends on a clip from the 1962 film, “The Longest Day” where an American soldier is fooled by the sound of a locking gun. Viewed today, on the surface of the interface, the click carries this poetic and immediate symbol of the socio-political histories of many common-place technologies.
The video starts with Miriam Makeba's iconic 'click' song as a representation of resistance to racial violence and ends on a clip from the 1962 film, “The Longest Day” where an American soldier is fooled by the sound of a locking gun. Viewed today, on the surface of the interface, the click carries this poetic and immediate symbol of the socio-political histories of many common-place technologies.