A State of Great Terror

 Blue Funk

A State of Great Terror, by Blue Funk. Installation view, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 1992. Photos. Denis Mortell.

A State of Great Terror by Blue Funk ran for two days at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, programmed into an interval between other long-planned exhibitions. The exhibition included a poster, text, video projector with synchronous ambient machine sound, video monitor with non-synchronous spoken word, video monitor with silent Super 8 transfer, synchronised carousel slide projectors with drumming track, carousel slide projector with timer, static carousel projectors, static cartridge slide projector. The photographs, above, show two views of A State of Great Terror from the gallery's entrance mezzanine and the gallery floor.