With Static Unrest (II), regiment takes the sonic element which was at the inception of the project and tests it with, and against, another medium. If radio is a presence that the artist deploys also in their live sound practice, here its unstable sound is echoed by the analog instability of videotapes. Static, glitchy, disintegrating found footage provides the backbone of the second instalment of the Static Unrest series: the use of automatic speech-to-text captions that attempt to capture this fragmented, incoherent, frequency-altered broadcast is in this sense performing the impossibility of a closure. 

Through exploration of time, repetition and chance the Static Unrest series slowly opens up to concerns around technologies, control, presence and memory. The artist allows us to reckon with the unresting qualities of technologies of documentation and narration but with what is ultimately the inherent performative potential of the medium. 

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