END FM

Receipt printer, thermal paper receipt rolls, Raspberry Pi. Dimensions variable.

This installation work features a receipt printer that shifts between periods of idleness and action, printing a series of fictional text messages to a radio station during an undescribed catastrophe. 'END FM' prints a series of responses to the radio hosts asking what people would keep if the world ended. The fictional responses range from the sincere to the ridiculous, and become peppered with increasingly frantic reactions to a sudden catastrophic event. These texts devolve into chaos and finally, silence.

Engaging with current dialogues about the apocalypse and the role of speculative fiction, ‘END FM’ presents a relentless, unstoppable archive of disaster, which repeats over and over, producing reams of paper that spill across the gallery floor. 

'END FM' situates the viewer in a state where fiction and reality begin to blur, and the printer functioning by itself makes the unseen apocalypse feel strangely possible.