Exhibitions
Desert Equinox
02.05.12
We have been invited to exhibit a work as part of the Desert Equinox exhibition in Broken Hill in September this year. Desert Equinox is timed to coincide with the 2012 spring equinox, and the exhibition is showcasing approximately 16 solar powered artworks to be installed around the desert city of Broken Hill. More information about the show can be found on the Exhibition Blog: [http://desertequinox.squarespace.com/] where you will also be able to follow progress.
The work proposed is titled Music Box Anti-Music Box:
Music Box – Anti-Music Box is the continuation of a body of site specific projects with the illusive as strategy. Further to these projects is an interest in, and examination of, the boundary condition, particularly that of a black hole the Event Horizon. Music Box – Anti-Music Box however departs from the visual response to site explored in the previous works, instead it is a soundscape of and about the sun - a response to the site as aural spatial experience and site as receiver of sunlight and sound.
The title of the work alludes to a scientific theory in which sub-atomic particles and their anti-particle are constantly winking in and out of existence. Given fleeting life until they meet their opposite obliterating one another in an imperceptible and illusive dance of existence. In Music Box – Anti-Music Box conceptually the photon and its anti-photon are translated into an illusive musical refrain, conceivably its brief tune also escaping identification.
Three to five solar armatures, supporting photovoltaics, battery and a mechanical music box dispersed across a site. Streams of photons translated into a flow of electrons translated into fleeting pressure waves: the brief tune bearing witness to its source. An unseen cadence obscures the melody's flow, an audience moving through the site surprised by an illusive refrain only able to grasp the briefest of impressions.
Music Box – Anti-Music Box a paean on the sub-atomic, the illusive and the space of the interior.
Here are a couple of the initial sketches:
The work proposed is titled Music Box Anti-Music Box:
Music Box – Anti-Music Box is the continuation of a body of site specific projects with the illusive as strategy. Further to these projects is an interest in, and examination of, the boundary condition, particularly that of a black hole the Event Horizon. Music Box – Anti-Music Box however departs from the visual response to site explored in the previous works, instead it is a soundscape of and about the sun - a response to the site as aural spatial experience and site as receiver of sunlight and sound.
The title of the work alludes to a scientific theory in which sub-atomic particles and their anti-particle are constantly winking in and out of existence. Given fleeting life until they meet their opposite obliterating one another in an imperceptible and illusive dance of existence. In Music Box – Anti-Music Box conceptually the photon and its anti-photon are translated into an illusive musical refrain, conceivably its brief tune also escaping identification.
Three to five solar armatures, supporting photovoltaics, battery and a mechanical music box dispersed across a site. Streams of photons translated into a flow of electrons translated into fleeting pressure waves: the brief tune bearing witness to its source. An unseen cadence obscures the melody's flow, an audience moving through the site surprised by an illusive refrain only able to grasp the briefest of impressions.
Music Box – Anti-Music Box a paean on the sub-atomic, the illusive and the space of the interior.
Here are a couple of the initial sketches:
Exhibition at Storefront for Art & Architecture
20.12.11
Redshift’s (in association with Laura Harding, Alex Koll & Michael Zanardo) PAD: Protest Activities Dwelling is currently part of an exhibition titled “Strategies for Urban Occupation” at the high profile New York gallery the Storefront for Art & Architecture. The gallery, designed by Steven Holl, is “committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design”… if you’re in New York get down there and have a look, on until December 22! Let us know what you think.
