Seamus Aloysius Carey is an artist working primarily with sound and play and relistening and trash and technologically mediated communication and public and wind in your ears and the infrathin and feedback and accessibility and private and stuff in bathrooms and resonance and responsibly hoarded materials and guilt and nostalgia and microdislocations and farts and things that look like frogs and exclusivity and car horns and tropes and monotony and not necessarily all of these things and piles and performance and thinking and fake ears and cultural capital and music and trashcans and artist statements and feet and video and mislistening and hand dryers.
before returning to work, 2019, Laminated posters
before returning to work, 2019, Laminated posters
before returning to work, 2019, Laminated posters
Series of posters hung in public restrooms subtly inviting participants to interrupt the mundane motions of their day with brief moments of play. Mimicking the design of workplace hand washing instructions, a series of hand motions are offered as a way to augment the sound of air rushing out of an electric hand dryer. Through the act of re-listening, the mundane action of drying ones hands becomes an opportunity to playfully reengagement with one’s surroundings.