Mystery Tapes (2015)
Strangethink has done it again. I’m not really sure what the ‘it’ is, but the 640 mysterious VHS cassettes in this latest release continue the theme of re-purposing a specific artifact as a symbol for the procedural generation of space and meaning. The aesthetics invoke the era of early video art crossed with early computer art crossed with whatever it is that drives Strangethink’s alien intrusions into our plane of existence.
It would be very easy for this to be context-less chaos, but for whatever reason, the sound, visuals, and text in Mystery Tapes manages to imply just enough context to point you towards the enigmatic glowing egg…