From: JEAN PARR <jeanparr-AT-btinternet.com>
Date: 05 Feb 2010 10:48:09 UTC   (05:48:09 AM in author's locale)
To: Situationist <situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org>

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant and as an ex dubbing editor I wish I could stand in the middle of it.
Really inspiring Laurie. and yeah very SI
Jean

--- On Thu, 4/2/10, Laurie Colson <lauriecolson-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Laurie Colson <lauriecolson-AT-yahoo.com>
> Subject: SI Inspired Audible Dwelling
> To: "To:" <situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org>
> Date: Thursday, 4 February, 2010, 19:48
> The following event in my town looks
> pretty SI inspired to me. I just don't understand why it is
> placed in the worst 'hood in town. You have to be pretty
> brave to hang there. I want to check it out tho. It must be
> intentionally placed there?
>  
> Artscape: Audible Dwelling
>
> Thursday,  January 28, 2010 6:00 AM
>
> By Chris DeVille
>
>
>
> Jodi Miller photo
>
>
> Audible Dwelling
> Web: bureauforopenculture.org
>
> If the pair of "stereo houses" indiscreetly plopped in the
> parking lot at E.. Long Street and Washington Avenue shook
> you from the monotony of your daily commute, good. They're
> working.
> The structures, known as Audible Dwelling, are part of
> Descent to Revolution, a series of exhibitions presented by
> CCAD's Bureau for Open Culture beginning last fall. The idea
> was to invite artist collectives from around the world to
> Columbus to create "social practice" art that engages with
> people outside the confines of a gallery.
> Some of the participating groups, such as Portland's Red 76
> and Learning Site, the Swedish/Danish group responsible for
> Audible Dwelling, had worked with CCAD before, but in a
> limited fashion.
> "The works we had shown with them in the past were more
> documents of their work, sometimes photographs or text about
> their practices," said James Voorhies, the Bureau's director
> of exhibitions. "These works are really at the heart of what
> they do."
> In the case of Learning Site, the team of Denmark's Rikke
> Luther and Sweden's Cecilia Wendt, that meant a fascination
> with public speaking's capacity to disrupt everyday life.
> The stereo houses - giant speaker cabinets intended to
> function as meeting places as much as broadcast stations -
> were influenced by Eileen Gray's De Stijl table in an
> attempt to optimize sound projection and maximize use of the
> space.
> Meanwhile, Learning Site teamed with Columbus talent Jaime
> Stapleton, Tony Peluso, Josh Penrose and Cassandra Troyan to
> write and record a speech, Is This Columbus, Ohio?, to be
> broadcast at irregular intervals from Audible Dwelling.
> The speech, which also streams at bureauforopenculture.org,
> takes a bemused, increasingly intense look at the city's
> reliance on cars and the massive infrastructure of freeways
> and parking lots that goes along with it.
> Learning Site's fascination with Columbus' car-centricity
> was partially inspired by Luther and Wendt's stay in CCAD's
> guest houses next to the Audible Dwelling lot during an
> information-gathering visit last summer.
> "There is this certain strangeness of these two brick
> structures that are from the 19th century ... marooned in
> the middle of this asphalt parking lot," Voorhies said.
> Audible Dwelling will be in Columbus through March, when
> it'll be transported either to California or its eventual
> destination back in Copenhagen. In the meantime, Voorhies is
> considering proposals from other artists looking to use the
> space.
> One upcoming event is Chord of Columbus, an audio-visual
> project by Skylab's John Also Bennett and Ohio State
> architecture professor Sarah Cowles. The duo is doing field
> recordings around Columbus, compiling them into a sound
> collage - "a cross-section and map of the city," their
> proposal explains - and using the wave forms to project
> colored lights from oscilloscopes in and around Audible
> Dwelling.
> Chord of Columbus will be performed Feb. 26 and March 6,
> with a bike tour of recording sites on March 3.
>
>
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