Talking Popcorn's Last Words, by Nina Katchadourian

Talking Popcorn's Last Words

by Nina Katchadourian

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1.	Jamieson Webster (psychoanalyst) 03:44
2.	Jeff Dolven (professor of English literature and poet) 06:37
3.	Vanessa Place (criminal defense attorney, poet, and artist) 10:01
4.	Philip Scher (anthropologist) 05:44
5.	Jae Carey (birth and death doula) 05:06
6.	Sheri Wells-Jensen (linguist, astrobiologist, disability studies scholar) 06:05
7.	Christoph Cox (professor of philosophy and sound theorist) 06:36
8.	Sonja Elison (astrologer) 10:16
9.	Matthew Frank (data scientist) 04:53	buy track
10.	John Cedarleaf (minister) 04:28	buy track
11.	Jennifer Kronovet (poet and translator) 05:46	buy track
12.	Emily Apter (professor of comparative literature and translation theory) 06:33	buy track
13.	Laura Welcher (linguist, endangered languages expert) 04:22	buy track
14.	Ken Kessel (Zen master and social worker) 06:56	buy track
15.	Lachlan Kermode (software engineer and computer scientist) 07:21	buy track
16.	Joseph Keckler (opera singer, musician, and writer) 07:37	buy track

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"Talking Popcorn (2001/2008)" and "Talking Popcorn’s Last Words" (2019)

"Talking Popcorn (2001/2008) is a sound sculpture consisting of a commercial popcorn machine that decodes the popping sounds using Morse code and speaks out the results in real time. Viewers are invited to "eat the words" after the machine has popped them.

The first "Talking Popcorn" machine, created in 2001, self-immolated in 2008 while in an exhibition in Houston. However, its computer survived the fire and so its last words were preserved.

In 2019, for an exhibition at Fridman Gallery in New York, sixteen people from a wide variety of fields and areas of expertise were asked to address Talking Popcorn’s last words from their particular disciplinary perspectives. The soundtrack played in a room with the burned, damaged carcass of the first machine standing on a black plinth upon which was written the machine's final pronouncement.

credits

released March 18, 2019

With great appreciation to all the interviewees, Fridman Gallery, Joshua Goldberg, Eric Chaikin, Cole Wilson, the Global Research Fellowship program and NYU Berlin, and enormous thanks to assistant sound editor Katie McCutcheon.

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Nina Katchadourian Brooklyn, New York

Based in Brooklyn, NY and Berlin, Germany. Visual artist, intermittent musician.

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