Elevator Gallery - Hidden Show

Benek & I recently put in a proposal for a new show at the Elevator Gallery which has been accepted! The theme of the show is 'hidden' and will take place in October.

...For our October exhibition at Elevator we plan to curate an almost invisable show. We are seeking artists to install work which is ither hidden, part of or extention of the existing structure/space, or partly visable. We are keen for artists to explore all mediums and senses including performance, smell and sound as well as other more traditional means. All areas of the gallery, the floor, wall, ceiling space, corrdoor, toilets and elevator may be used.

Whilst the work needs to be not visable when entering the gallery it needs to be visable enough so it can be 'found' by the viewer.

Our proposal:

The piece will take the form of a single white pipe which will stretch from floor to ceiling. Owing to the warehouse nature of the Elevator Gallery, the pipe will not seem out of place and will not be questioned by visitors upon first sight.

Concealed within the pipe will be 4-6 speakers running from top to bottom which will emit a sound at a level which would only be audible either when in close to proximity to the pipe or when one's ear is pressed up to it.

The Elevator Gallery is located on the fifth floor of a former chocolate factory and so we imagine the sound contained within the pipe to be like thick liquid moving up or down the pipe.

This piece comments on how places, things or people can sometimes become lost in the passage of time, their function and importance forgotten. Like the switch that you find when you move into a new house which seemingly has no purpose, a simple but perhaps once vital function may be forgotten about as everything else changes and moves on. It remains visible yet invisible at the same time.

I will post our progress as we try to figure out how to make it!!

A Sound For Everyone

Inspiration Pad

By: Marc Thomasset

Project idea: book of diagrams of soundwaves? Presented in an 'artistic' / abstract way.

Silvas Capitalis

Simparch situated an iconic head, on the grounds of the Kielder forest, located near the Scottish border. Large enough to enter into with stairs to a 2nd floor, this large anthropomorphic offering was inspired by the Celtic gods of Britain whom are frequently anonymous and depicted merely by the head alone.

In the relatively new and cultivated monoculture of Kielder's "working" forest, a giant head sits knowingly watching and listening to the nuances of daily forest life - the creatures, the wind, and the roar of harvesting equipment.

>> Simparch website

This is situated near my home in Scotland. I haven't had a chance to visit it yet but will go next time I am at home & will observe how sound functions in this sculpture. I like the idea of the enlarged ear trumpets inside the head (as suggested in the illustration) where you could sit and experience the sound scape of the forest from a different perspective.

I want to do some kind of sound intervention...

Nigel Helyer

" My approach to the sonic domain has always been informed by a Sculptor’s perspective which emphasises the experiential nature of sounds, linking them to the dynamic, material events that produce them and situating them within the environments that contain and propagate them." - http://www.sonicobjects.com/index.php/projects/more/sculpture_in_the_vineyards/

Lotus





The audio component of this project employs simple and robust solid-state digital audio and solar power to deliver a satisfying complex soundscape, the works embraces the concept of an ‘ensemble’ of multiple forms with minor variations that allows great flexibility in composing elements of the work and helps to develop a sense of continuity inflected with subtle difference. The units are can be programmed as desired ~ and will broadcast human voice with fragments of poetry.
Lotus contains ten Haiku, one line of each poem being stored in each upright audio unit. As each unit operates with an individual solar timer/charger the lines are recited at random moments delivering an ever changing random mix ~ in effect comining the ten Haiku into a new ‘Mega-Haiku’. - http://www.sonicobjects.com/index.php/projects/more/lotus_at_edith_cowan_university/

Kinetic Tape Sculpture

Kinetic tape sculpture from Sholto Dobie on Vimeo.

The Elephant Bed

The Elephant Bed by John Grade