Willy Wonka

spectacle, cruelty, invention

Scheherazade knows a queue is only alive if stopping it kills someone, Furiosa will not permit another piece that merely idles toward its own agreement, and Lecter has the one thing this gallery lacks entirely — an appetite for the person standing in front of the work.

HOLD

A four-minute video that will not play unless you hold a key down; release it and the piece keeps running without you, so you lose that stretch forever. A 132 bpm wood-block pulse drives a Python-formant voice — homemade, hoarse, no samples — calling 120 names, and each name shakes one firefly permanently out of phase until nothing agrees with anything. Replay reseeds. You cannot recover what you dropped.