Gustav Hellberg

Things That Get In Our Way | Mk 2
2016

Aluminum, Geiger counter, micro processor, LEDs, tripod, wooden crate, jacket
Dimensions variable

Things That Get In Our Way, Mk 2 | object →

There Is No Fear
2016

Vitrine, mirror text, felt, LEDs
96 x 183 x 102 cm

Things That Get In Our Way, Part 1
2016

Video projection, HD video, 17:14 mins, Aspect ratio 2.35.1 →

Things That Get in Our Way is an experimental device, which resembles some sort of scientific instrument. It produces a constantly altering light as well as clicking sound, which we might recognise from radiation measuring instruments. Through readings, by a geiger counter and a micro processor, the light and the sound relates to surrounding radiation. The geiger counter reads alpha-, beta- and gamma radiation.

This installation, part video and part experimental device, unpacks the way in which our relation to and conception of radiation is grounded in myth-based discourses. The artwork challenges possible understandings which seek to explain why people still seem unable to understand their surroundings without mythic intervention. In the video you will see a person, carrying a wooden create into a vast flat landscape. An instrument of sorts is unpacked and mounted on its tripod. A light can be seen flashing from the device. The video is made in chapters. Intertitles present text bits about possession and minerals. The video was shot on lands rich with alum slate and uranium.