Ghostless (Notation I. Horror Acts a Lot Like Desire), 2023 - ongoing (WIP)Video and sound installation on baker sheet mounted on mirrored surface, with atomic clock and quartz crystal resonators"To be haunted", Avery Gordon writes, "is to be tied to historical and social effects". Ghostless (Notation I. Horror Acts a Lot Like Desire) considers another kind of horror – one that is about the absence of haunting and disturbance. This first set of notations on “ghostlessness”, a self-defined term meaning the inability to experience haunting, features scenes of from a quantum computing lab, an autonomous robot display (whose function is to purportedly inspect areas too dangerous or unideal for human presence), scientific museum displays, atomic clocks, and archival material from American databases on technology. It is interwoven with a narrative track that considers philosophical perspectives of horror, loss, and time. These are sites and moments oriented to futurity, standardisations, and a catastrophic conception of time. In this work I meander through how ideological, affective, and infrastructural manifestations of technology confabulate another space and affective predicament – that of being untouched by ghosts. Haunting is an interval that sanctifies life itself, the absence of which serves as an index to its temporal crises.

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed