ANDRI BJÖRGVINSSON
Works
Waiting Room
Shipwreck
Lullaby for gymrats
Monophthongs
St. Emi
The Chosen Ones
Die Rennbahn
Above and Below
Gaps
About / CV
ANDRI BJÖRGVINSSON
Works
Waiting Room
Shipwreck
Lullaby for gymrats
Monophthongs
St. Emi
The Chosen Ones
Die Rennbahn
Above and Below
Gaps
About / CV
2021
“Nowadays, everybody wanna talk like they got somethin' to say
But nothin' comes out when they move their lips
Just a bunch of gibberish
And motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre”
-Eminem
The artwork consists of a video placed within a triptych made from black walnut. Beside the video, I present the automatically generated subtitles that YouTube produced from the audio track. The video itself shows the rapper Eminem performing an eight-minute loop of randomly generated letters, a nonsensical text spoken in Eminem’s voice through speech-synthesis. This audio is then lip-synced to the image using an early version of the Wav2Lip technology.
Images from the group exhibition “Snúrusúpa” in Reykjavík City Hall in 2022.