Quote:Possessions_inc. is a video project by Richard Grayson for Matt’s Gallery. A new episode in the series will be posted online once a month over 2016 – 2019.
Quote:A text by writer and curator Lars Bang Larsen To Be Spoken Like A Thing Possessed On Richard Grayson’s Possessions_inc. explores and expands ideas and themes that animate the work. This is the first of two essays commissioned for the project. The second by Erik Davis [Whispers of the Demon was published later in the year.]
Quote:Possessions_inc. touches on ideas of value, the agency of objects, robotics, techno animism, ecstatic states, ventriloquism, the operations of the internet, money, codes, the art-market, secret knowledge and mytho-mania. It is part t.v. series, part blog and part extended essay.
Possessions_inc. is the talking head of a sculpture of a devil that stands at the door of a church in South West France. To receive updates on future episodes of Possessions_inc., please join the Matt’s Gallery mailing list.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell