Florian Hollerweger: ‘24/7’, sound installation.
Opening: Thursday 15 October 2009, 6-8pm
In the last two weeks, the Austrian sound artist Florian Hollerweger has set up an electro-acoustic installation, a non stop recording system of everyday-and-night voices and sounds. He uses a 'dummy head' with microphones embedded into its ears, which continuously record the soundscape in the space.
Through different delays the sounds are played back again on various headphones. Each of them allows the visitor to 'listen back' to different moments of the acoustic history - a few seconds, a couple of hours, an entire week ago.
Florian Hollerweger’s work allows us to reflect on the threat of public and private surveillance, but also the poetic potentials of sound and memory.
It oscillates between control, secrecy and the temptation to ‘listen in’ and the importance of recollecting sounds as an aspect of constructing memory.
Or- as Hollerweger writes more playfully: ‘In this experiment you are not just the listening observer but also the listened-to performer. So make sound! Leave messages for strangers! Propose to your girlfriend and send her over the next day to hear it! Come out and play!’
24/7 continuous till 24 October 2009
Opening hours: Tues - Sat 1am -6pm
For more information see: http://flo.mur.at/24/7
or www.pssquared.org/F.%20Hollerweger.php
Contact: pssquared@btconnect.com ; 07733457772
PS²is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
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