Are You Glad You Came to Church Today is a meditation on religion and the mediated spectacle of belief. Drawing from the visual language of religious broadcasting, the work reflects on how faith is staged through technology, where sermons, testimonies, and rituals are transmitted as images and sounds, their authority sustained by repetition and spectacle.
A central moment in the work emerged through accident: a hardware failure that produced a glitch in the broadcast signal. Rather than treating this as error, the failure was incorporated into the piece as if providential, an interruption recoded as divine intervention. In this transformation, the work reveals the strange affinity between faith and system collapse: a space where rupture becomes rapture.
The glitch functions as both breakdown and epiphany. Just as religion interprets accidents as signs, the disrupted transmission acquires a transcendental aura, exposing both the fragility and the resilience of mediated faith. The distortion becomes an ecstatic signal, blurring the line between error and miracle, failure and revelation.
Are You Glad You Came to Church Today therefore stages the paradox of religious media: belief sustained not despite technological fragility but through it, where every interruption has the potential to be recast as revelation, and where the collapse of systems becomes the very ground of transcendence.