Rose Kallal

POLYPHASE TRANSMISSION
January 25, 2020

LIVE Performance 14hs

Polyphase Transmission consists of a two-channel video and sound installation and three light boxes with geometric patterned Duratran prints. Using video synthesis, feedback, and processed three dimensional animations, Kallal’s hypnotic, serial imagery channels early video and computer work from the 1970s. Analog feedback systems simulate the unfurling and collapsing of space and time with images feeding unto themselves, much like the timeline unfolding beyond the physical confines of the projection.

Accompanying these images are Kallal’s own electronic sound works; using modular synthesizers, Kallal creates music that is also folding in on each other and reflects the same narrative as their visual counterparts. The sounds of the synthesizers harken back to early electronic compositions of the 1960s and 1970s, unraveling and cycling unto each other. In conjunction with the transforming and dissolving imagery, they create a space in which art history is being rewritten and solutions to obsolete technology are in sight.

These endless sensorial cycles of breakdown and reemergence speak to the present yet constant digital dialogue while using outmoded expressions of the future. With this focus on obsolescence, Kallal forges a new progression in this conversation— within this space of her creation, she harkens the nostalgic past to hypothesize the fate of the future, merging all timelines into one immersive environment.

Rose is represented by
Lyles & King, New York.