First exhibited in 2014, 3AM Eternal (Riffing off the KLF) was system built to chase house music around the globe at a constant 3AM. A computer system was designed to draw upon a database of house, acid house, and electronica webcasts, radio stations and live club simulcasts from around the world, drawing music live from wherever it was currently 3AM. This computer system was coupled with a large sound system, a sound system over-sized for the small and windowless room in which it was first exhibited. The room was cast in darkness, and the system played continuously and quite loud whatever happened to be on at the hour of 3AM, somewhere else in the world.

Attempting to track this transmission around the globe, something further emerged. In the work’s passage across the Atlantic there was one time-zone in which the system broadcast only silence. Somehow the gesture of the KLF deleting their entire back catalogue in 1992 came to mind, attempting (at least) to leave a KLF shaped hole in the music industry. This space presented a kind of break. Within the exhibition it became a moment of respite, like in the morning when the music stops. It was space through which something else could be felt, through which something else could emerge—a space I have come to think, that should be celebrated. This gap within the 3AM Eternal project later became the starting point of my work, Love Saves the Day (2020 & 2022)

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Love Saves the Day (2020 & 2022)