Walks

Statement

FIRST INSPIRATION:
Janet Cardiff has said that she went for a walk in a cemetery and recorded the inscriptions on the tombstones on a Dictaphone that she was carrying. When she went home and listened to it later, she thought it sounded interesting and it inspired her to create an audio “walk.”

INNOVATIVE ASPECT OF THE PROJECT AND PARTICULAR RESEARCH INTEREST:
Three dimensional sound recording. Locating the viewer in space. How the viewer interacts with the art work, and the boundaries of experience.

SKILLS AND RESOURCES NECESSARY TO REALISE/ORGANISE THE PROJECT:
Sound recording and editing

REACTIONS TO AND EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT:
Very positive reaction. The walks explore the boundaries of intimacy, physical space of the viewer in relationship to the artwork. They question how artwork functions within and outside of the gallery or museum white box space. The questions that arise are innumerable.

FOLLOW-UP PROJECT:
The Paradise Institute was shown at the Venice Bienniale where Cardiff and Miller represented Canada. This piece also uses three-dimensional sound, but the viewers are seated in a mock theatre. la biennale di venezia, 2001, Pavillon, Canada


(All answers by Claudia Altman-Siegel, Luhring Augustine Gallery , NY on behalf of Janet Cardiff)