Jessie Stead
Punched Interlude / 5¢ Fire Line
2017
Jessie Stead, Punched Interlude / 5¢ Fire Line, 2017. Sculpture, audio.
Jessie Stead’s Punched Interlude works are made out of found police barricade tape that she punches holes in and then runs through a music box, the music is composed by her as audible reflection on barricades and no go zones throughout the city of New York in area of Donald Trump. The music box is attached to a gumball machine globe which acts as a resonator, amplifying the music that results from the punched holes.
Jessie Stead is as much a musician as she is a visual artist. She is the percussionist for the legendary works in overlapping patterns of cinema, installation, music, collaboration and other forms of cross-disciplined art. Recent solo exhibitions include 247365 (New York), and Jan Kaps (Cologne).