"A sampler, a machine that reprocesses musical products, also implies constant activity; to listen to records becomes work in itself, which diminishes the dividing line between reception and practice ... This recycling of sounds, images, and forms implies incessant navigation within the meanderings of cultural history, navigation which itself becomes the subject of artistic practice."
Nicolas Bourriaud, Postproduction

The process here is interconnected with notions of city movements and sampling, based on the thinking around taking samples of space or objects by capturing the light, then manipulating or time-stretching these samples in the manner of a sound remix.

The foundation of Jaykoe's practice is drawing and tracing movements in city space, encompassing a range of processes to sample and form interventions.

The work stems from a fascination with the centres that we construct, the forms they take and what they reveal about us, at a time when more than half of the world's population live in cities, a proportion that is expected to rise to three quarters by 2050.

Jaykoe is a project title for the current mode of working, which alludes to issues around agency and identity in relation to the space that is focussed on, used by an artist born and based in London, of Irish heritage.

Double Negative (7 Inch Test Press)
2012
Mars Black Screenprint.
Height: 40 cm Width: 30 cm Depth: 2 cm
Edition of 100
Signed by the artist.