the cone of silence: first site.
as you all know, this year has been a crazy busy year for me. i think the official twitter hashtag for my 2009 is #norestforthewicked.
so, in 2 weeks' time i have an installation/intervention/something-or-other at First Site gallery in Swanston St, Melbourne. It's one of the RMIT galleries, underneath Storey Hall.
it's a space that is part of my research into headphones and acoustic privacy; a site-specific work that recreates the actions we take when we put our headphones on - we create a little niche for ourselves to be unheard. a choice over our sonic environment.
inspired, of course, by maxwell smart and the cone of silence from the get smart tv series*, it is a crawl space that has been set into the stairway to heaven at the back of the gallery (for those who know the space).
opening on tuesday 15th september at 5:30pm, the exhibition runs until the 26th, in conjunction with the sculpture exhibition: scale of mark.
*of course there are more serious influences like bachelard, adorno, debord and bull, but there'll be an essay available at the gallery for all you freaks who are interested in cultural theory/aesthetics - this blog is for the lowest common denominator, don't you know.
3 comments:
i hope you have a shoe-phone in there too!
but seriously, french philosophy aside you can't get more entertaining high-theory than the dedicated prose on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Silence
oh, and this is great!
http://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/cone.html
amazing photos there, some set-maker had fun on that one!!
hey lucas! greetings from austria i see. hope it's a blast over there.
as much as i would love to have a shoe-phone in there, unfortunately, there's no reception - being the cone of silence - so i thought it best to leave it out.
i've used some of those images in my masters' presentations before - awesome. and that site is a dream too. in fact, there are 2 sets of automatic doors at RMIT that open exactly like some of the doors in get smart opening sequence ie. just at the last minute - i think the designers there have as warped sense of pop cultural nostalgia as i do :)
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