A Week of Mercy, Mercy, Me, Marvin Gaye, Dissenting Landscapes, 2010.
A Week of Summertime Blues, Eddie Cochran, Dissenting Landscapes, 2010.
A Week of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott-Heron, Dissenting Landscapes, 2010.
"Dissenting Landscapes" transforms protest music into physical terrain through electrochemical processes. In this series, iconic songs of social commentary—including Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues," Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," and Marvin Gaye's "Mercy, Mercy Me"—are converted into electrical current use to shape copper crystal formations over week-long durations.
The resulting miniature topographies are literal crystallisations of dissent, where political voice becomes tangible. Each formation's unique structure reflects the sonic particularities of its source material—a tongue-in-cheek scientific "proof" that protest music may in fact physically reshape our world. The project playfully suggests that resistance isn't just metaphorical but material, as revolutionary sound waves alter copper's molecular structure, creating landscapes of protest that outlast their temporal audio origins.