From: John Ohno <john.ohno-AT-gmail.com>
Date: 09 Feb 2010 18:49:08 UTC   (01:49:08 PM in author's locale)
To: Situationist <situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org>

www.bopsecrets.org/SI/urbgeog.htm suggests some reasons why an
attempt at a situationist subversion of urban geography might be best
suited to exist in the bad part of town.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:48 AM, JEAN PARR <jeanparr-AT-btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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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