Material: Record Sleeve, Paper, Cardboard; Format: 32 x 31 cm 

“Traveling at the Speed of Thought (Remix)” was created in homage to the American conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth. One of Kosuth’s best-known works, “One and Three Chairs,” is a visual expression of Plato’s concept of the Forms. The piece features a physical chair, a photograph of that chair, and the text of a dictionary definition of the word “chair.” The photograph is a representation of the actual chair situated on the floor in the foreground of the artwork. The definition, posted on the same wall as the photograph, delineates in words the concept of what a chair is in its various incarnations. In this and the other similar works “Five Words in Blue Neon “and “Glass One and Three,” Kosuth presents tautological statements, where the works literally are what they say they are.

This homage features a collage made from the LP of The Ultramagnetic MCs’ album Critical Beatdown. The Ultramagnetic MCs were a hip hop group formed in 1984 by Kool Keith, Ced Gee, TR Love, and Moe Love. The group released a new school classic Critical Beatdown in 1988, introducing a variety of new and innovative sampling techniques. Many believe that without the group’s primary producer, Ced Gee, the golden era of sampling may have looked very different. This album is among the first to use “chopped” samples, rearranged and edited to change context. A lyric from the Jefferson Airplane song White Rabbit also appears in this work. Jefferson Airplane, formed in 1965, was a pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement. As well as referencing psychedelic drugs, the song incorporates imagery from Lewis Carroll stories: 1865’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking Glass.