A collaboration between the London-based electronic musician Max Cooper and the visual artist Kevin McGloughlin in Ireland, Repetition invites viewers to take a mind-bending dive into an audiovisual world of infinite regress. Extrapolating from everyday images, McGloughlin constructs roads and traffic lights that intertwine endlessly, and escalators and elevators that traverse high-rise buildings with no top floor. These mesmerising visuals are accentuated by the ceaseless, steady pulse of Cooper’s ambient score. Intermittent land- and oceanscape imagery seems to draw out parallels between patterns in human engineering and nature, as well as tensions between human expansion and the natural world. But, ultimately, what Repetition offers viewers most forcefully isn’t social commentary, but an immersive experience that’s somehow at once meditative, disorienting and thrilling – and best viewed at full screen.
Dive into a boundless cityscape with an immersive artwork inspired by the infinite
Director: Kevin McGloughlin
Composer: Max Cooper

videoBiology
A transfixing audiovisual dive into varieties of emergence
4 minutes

videoCities
Time dilates and people flow in and out of each other in a hallucinatory urban commute
3 minutes

videoMusic
Watch as the rhythms of traffic create a mesmerising score
2 minutes

videoQuantum theory
‘Moving paintings’ evoke a quantum particle collision at the Large Hadron Collider
4 minutes

videoTechnology and the self
A haunting scene from ‘Minority Report’ inspires a voyage into time and memory
7 minutes

videoArchitecture
A whirlwind tour of Hong Kong’s high-rises is an awesome meditation on urbanity
9 minutes

videoInformation and communication
An animation built from road signs is a whirlwind study of flash communication
2 minutes

videoAstronomy
Celebrating the rough, the raw and the human in hardcore space science
3 minutes

videoThe environment
A dizzying ‘advertisement for Earth’ shows the beauty and scars of our planet
3 minutes