Talking Machine
Vivian Caccuri
Vivian Caccuri
Artwork
2018
Artist
Vivian Caccuri
Title
Talking Machine
Date
2018
Materials
Video, sound
Dimensions
48 min
Credit
Courtsey of the artist
Vivian Caccuri uses installation and performance to analyse the impact of sound on social and cultural formations. Talking Machine charts the emergence and trajectory of Brazil’s vinyl industry, from the arrival of Fred Figner, an entrepreneurial European immigrant who pioneered the first production and sale of Brazilian music on vinyl records in the early 1900s, to its impact on Brazilian artists such as Cildo Meireles, Waltercio Caldas and Chelpa Ferro.