Real Bad Luck
Fram/Forward
Untitled (History Lessons)
A Chat with the Artist
Collect Call
Frozen Warnings
Room + Board
32 Stories
A Taxonomy…
Talk Soon
A radio broadcast using an FM transmitter, Frozen Warnings is an audio narrative about transmissions, signals and the history of sound recording. Based on the story of explorer Adolphus Greeley’s Arctic expedition in the 1880s, this work creates a fictional dialogue between Greeley, his wife, another crew member, the inventor Thomas Edison, and American officials. It takes as its premise an idea from Edison’s journals — that any sound could be captured long after it had dissipated from our aural range. Blending actual journal entries from Greeley and Edison with original material and appropriated fictional texts, Frozen Warnings was broadcast on the FM dial from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily for one week in London, Ontario. This work foregrounds media history alongside the personal narratives embedded in it.