Excerpt 00.00 to 02.41 of 23.47 mins.
Listen with headphones
Bronwen Buckeridge
7 and 2 | Black is Water
Sound installation: 2 x iPods with headphones,
scale drawing with Chinese symbols
(pencil, biro and lined exercise paper 60 X 40 cm),
part I 23.47 mins, part II 4.47 mins
‘7 and 2 | Black is Water’ was made for Furnished Space in June 2011, when a Feng Shui consultant was invited to conduct a reading of the flat and then present his findings. Entering the space the viewer found a hand-drawn scale plan of the flat, marked with various symbols, and two sets of headphones (one in the living room and one in the bedroom) where they could listen in to the consultant making his report and discussing the findings. Recorded binaurally, the viewer has a sense of the interlocutors moving around them, and as aspects of the flat are considered and various objects referenced and examined, it gradually becomes apparent to the viewer that the room under discussion is the very same room they have walked through and are now sitting in. More...
scale drawing with Chinese symbols
(pencil, biro and lined exercise paper 60 X 40 cm),
part I 23.47 mins, part II 4.47 mins
‘7 and 2 | Black is Water’ was made for Furnished Space in June 2011, when a Feng Shui consultant was invited to conduct a reading of the flat and then present his findings. Entering the space the viewer found a hand-drawn scale plan of the flat, marked with various symbols, and two sets of headphones (one in the living room and one in the bedroom) where they could listen in to the consultant making his report and discussing the findings. Recorded binaurally, the viewer has a sense of the interlocutors moving around them, and as aspects of the flat are considered and various objects referenced and examined, it gradually becomes apparent to the viewer that the room under discussion is the very same room they have walked through and are now sitting in. More...
