ECHO FX
2-channel video (performable)
19 minutes
Exhibited and performed: Berghain (Berlin), Corsica Studios (London), Synnika (Frankfurt), Gluqbar (Milan)
ECHO FX replays the flow of information on social media and foreign exchange markets on the night of the 2016 Brexit referendum. Following a timely concession by Nigel Farage, rumors of a Leave loss spread, inflating the value of the Pound market. As the referendum outcome became apparent later that night, a number of traders with private polling information pointing to a Leave win made millions from the crashing Pound.
ECHO FX is inspired by a 2018 Bloomberg investigation. It was screened on the third anniversary of referendum night in June 2019 as part of Hyperdub's Ø club night at Corsica Studios in London, and performed the night before the United Kingdom left the European Union in January 2020 as part of CTM x transmediale festival at Berghain in Berlin. The work is included in the homonymous book ECHO FX (Krisis Publishing, 2021), collecting essays and visual contributions by writers and artists responding to the events narrated in the piece.
- 2021 (book)
- ECHO FXKRISIS PUBLISHING
- ØFLATLINE PRESS/HYPERDUB
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- 2020 (live AV)
- CTM × TRANSMEDIALEBERGHAIN, Berlin
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- 2019 (screening)
- Ø.29CORSICA STUDIOS, London
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ECHO FX
2-channel video (performable)
19 minutesExhibited and performed: Berghain (Berlin), Corsica Studios (London), Synnika (Frankfurt), Gluqbar (Milan)
ECHO FX replays the flow of information on social media and foreign exchange markets on the night of the 2016 Brexit referendum. Following a timely concession by Nigel Farage, rumors of a Leave loss spread, inflating the value of the Pound market. As the referendum outcome became apparent later that night, a number of traders with private polling information pointing to a Leave win made millions from the crashing Pound.
ECHO FX is inspired by a 2018 Bloomberg investigation. It was screened on the third anniversary of referendum night in June 2019 as part of Hyperdub's Ø club night at Corsica Studios in London, and performed the night before the United Kingdom left the European Union in January 2020 as part of CTM x transmediale festival at Berghain in Berlin. The work is included in the homonymous book ECHO FX (Krisis Publishing, 2021), collecting essays and visual contributions by writers and artists responding to the events narrated in the piece.
