Terence Hannum

Proclamation

In the shadows, in the basement hollows, in the darkest spaces where music exists on a periphery forged by remaining out of the spotlight, a secular congregation remains prostrate before blackened shrines of amplifiers - fingers in their ears, swaying in the full deluge of possession.

To me music and religion mix on many planes. On one hand music is put to use (or strictly and selectively prohibited from use) in religious practices, while on the other hand unsacred music approaches music as a religion with its own holy days, rituals, relics and divisions between what is considered sacred and profane. These observances are even more defined within the music generated and celebrated by subcultures.

It is this periphery of the living cult that I am interested in reflexively and poetically documenting to translate through installation a frame for analyzing how ritual sublimates chaos even on the most outer fringe of the sonic spectrum.