A nice video done by Lily Henderson

I heard, read and wrote  about The listening post by Hansen and Rubin but I never experienced it.

Today I went to the Science Museum with my kids as we were wandering in London… and I noticed on the museum map: 1st floor, Listening Post. Could it be? There can’t be many Listening Posts, can it? After doing all the interactive spots on the 3rd floor, I dragged my kids to the 1st floor and after a little bit of search found a sign “science art projects”. At the end of a corridor, there it was!

I really liked the piece although I wish it was not stuck behind a glass fence and that one could stand in front, walk around. People sat at there were seats in the middle of the room. I thought it took away some of the experience. People did not walk around. They just sat and “watched and listened”. I also realized that many people were puzzled. The audience was not right in a sense. People did not come to see art installations and they were not expected it, and they did not know how to interpret it, experience it.

Yet I was still very happy to see this work which in many ways is very close to the themes we explored with Aileen:words,online interactions, sounds. In a way Hansen and Rubin’s work highlights more the cacophony and the random aspect of the web, while we looked at the construction of connections, of relationships.

It was just a nice surprise and it made my day!

al

words enveloping bodies, bodies moving among, between words… in the space, through the sounds.

space shelters bodies and bodies make space visible… as well sounds make the space visible too…

the blog is really fun to post on because you can type and then see your words on the maze and everybody can see it.

But it’s really hard to see because sometimes it goes fast.

Jyoti

I do think that the somewhat relaxed sense that developed in me in the exhibit seemed related to a sense of being in a community as well as a space. People at the show could post to the blog, the words moving through the visual area in a rhythmic fashion, the sound of voices in the background. It was like being able to work or just be, with a sense of people around you whom you could consult when you wanted to, but whose voices and words were accessible and connecting. Also the way the blog is written is welcoming.
Lynne Henderson

is easy, just need words

‘City of Words’, lithograph by Vito Acconci, 1999

When I first mentioned the idea of Building_Space_With_Words to my friend and artist, Claudia Conduto, she told me about an installation by Rebecca Horn that she saw: “The light imprisoned in the belly of the whale”. It’s a dark room with poems projected on walls and projected into a black sink of water.      

See the links below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFMMcGDvebg <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFMMcGDvebg>  http://www.rebecca-horn.de/pages/biography.htmlBoth Aileen and I loved this installation… and it did connect with our work: discourse projected, sound in the background leads to a different perception of space and calls the viewer for a redefinition of space.al