For ART-O-RAMA, ENTERPRISE presents dismantled segments of a decommissioned high-voltage tower. Once standing vertically within a larger transmission network, the structure connected distant sites and supported the regulated movement of electrical energy. Its decommissioning ended this technical function, but did not erase the material or the histories of labour, maintenance and control embedded within it.
Disassembled, transported and arranged horizontally across the booth, the pylon no longer operates as infrastructure. Nor does it settle fully into sculpture. It moves between equipment, inventory, ruin and exhibit: a technical object suspended between one regime of use and another. It has entered a different circuit, governed by new protocols. The booth functions as a temporary holding environment for this transition. Markings and residual traces of handling register the change of status rather than reconstruct an origin.
ANEW considers decommissioning not as a definitive endpoint, but as a transfer. Systems become obsolete, yet their components persist, circulate and are reclassified. Removed from the network that once made it legible, the tower remains materially present but functionally unresolved, still structured by systems, only no longer by the one for which it was built.
Text: Lark Ring