JUDAS ISCARIOT IN THE 13TH CIRCLE OF HELL
I was for a while quite obsessed with the Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot and the stories of what happened to him after the death of Jesus. One said that he returned home after the crucifixion and his wife was cooking a chicken, when Judas told her about what had happened, the chicken came back to life. Another said that Judas became incredibly swollen and putrid, so large he could not fit down the street. He eventually burst (out of the end of his dick) and made a mess in Potter's Fields, the smell of his remains lasting for decades. I attempted to make a sculpture on the subject and came up with the below plan. I used pinballs because I was thinking about the derivés of Guy Debord, how they talked about themselves pinballing around Paris. This image is a render of the 13 sculptures, which use two dowels to hold the pinball at different heights which when looked at in line form a sine wave. Each pair of dowels and pinball is rotated at 27.7 degrees, (360 divided by thirteen), so when photographed in situ, form a rotating motion. Below are animated films of the 13 sculptures shot in one spot and then all 13 together in a circle, moved in step around the circumference. I composed the music on a Moog Grandmother and a guitar.
