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Title: 'A place for listening'
Artist:
Malcolm Tait
Artist Located
in: East Lincolnshire
Format:
Installation / Sculpture/ Sound
Project
description: Giant Deckchair, Parasol
and bucket and spade with a soundtrack emanating from 1960’s radio
of old music and travel extracts. These pieces will form the central
construction of the work and it will be surrounded by four life-size
satellite copies of the central work. At each of these satellite
sites, each co-ordinated differently to give a sense of travel as
you move between them, there will be different soundtracks audible
only through earphones, each soundtrack will reflect differences
experienced in travel, one collected thoughts of local people, a
second immigrant thoughts on there experiences in there own language
and translated, a third with sounds recorded in a completely
different setting, and at the fourth will be a recording facility
where visitors can leave there views on the individual work, travel
and journeys and the project as a whole.
Premise:
‘It seems to me that I would always be
better of where I am not, and this question of moving is one of
those I discuss incessantly with my soul."
Charles Baudelaire.
As a society we
are captivated by new destinations, both spiritual and worldly,
immersed in a search for something that will fill a sense of lack we
cannot locate in our present temporal and spatial home. In a world
incessantly “becoming” something else, we try to locate improved
futures in examination historical events, but both the future we
desire and the past we examine have taken on the quality of
permanence both temporally and spatially, they are places where we
imagine we cease ‘becoming’. This sense of permanence, given
especially to nostalgic memories we transfer to our ambitions for
the future, we avidly want to ‘arrive’, we want to cease ‘becoming’
and ‘become’ content, but the narrative never stops. The increased
scale of the central work reflecting a growing desire for a
nostalgic past whilst the life-size satellites sites explore the
difficulties we experience as a result of all forms of travel, seen
from the local and ‘other’ perspectives
Project
Engagement: Audience members will have
to listen to the soundtrack at each satellite site, travelling
between them, and will be encouraged to use the record site to leave
there views of the work, project and project themes.
Experience:
The artist has completed various public art projects throughout
2007, including ‘In search of Albion’ forerunner for this
event.
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