PARTICIPANT INC is proud to present Peter Hendrick, Convocation, a 5-channel sound and video installation that presents the output of a computer program devised by the artist to translate prominent religious texts into Morse code. Developed over the course of several years, Convocation consists of an originally designed computer program which, operating in real time, distills theological texts from Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hindu, and Judaism into a visual and aural cacophony of dots, dashes, and beeps. Emanating from text files, each book is translated; the image and sound, in Morse Code, are simultaneously relayed to the corresponding projected image. Divided into five ‘stations,’ one for each religion represented, the resulting multimedia work abstracts the texts into audio and video outputs — reducing various concepts of infallibility into a monochromatic, monotone, technological system. Growing up as a Catholic gay man in Ireland during the sectarian violence of the 1970s and subsequently moving to England to study before immigrating to the United States, Hendrick creates multi-media works that explore the complicated relationships between nation-state patriotism, domestic security, and international politics.