electricity research

explanation of electrical buzzing noise

artist research

TOMOKO TAKAHASHI

Organised chaos

“Each work is triggered by her response to a particular site or personal situations. Takahashi takes the entire space into account. She develops an internal logic which she uses to order and compose objects within this designated space.”

“She is highly selective when hunting for materials for her work. Objects are chosen for their intended functions, others are chosen to help highlight and animate different aspects and ideas within the work. The resulting installations are like complex three dimensional collages, where the gallery serves as both the artist's studio and a viewing space.”

‘Learning How to Drive’

‘Sea Dirge’

SUBODH GUPTA

U.F.O 2007 is another work made up of hundreds of brass water utensils that are soldered together to resemble a flying saucer. This gleaming sculpture is amusing yet pertinent to ideas of sustainability, poverty and notions of otherness. The repetition of forms and the exaggeration of scale is a common element in Gupta’s work.

‘Line of Control’- nuclear bomb created from kitchen utensils

uses pots and pans, reflective of Indian heritage, and speaks about mass production ‘reflect on the economic transformation of his homeland’. 

‘Gupta's strategy of appropriating everyday objects and turning them into artworks that dissolve their former meaning and function’

JOHN WYNNE

‘untitled’, Saatchi gallery 2009

installation made fom 300 speakers, a pianola. A vacuum cleaner, audio amplifiers, hard disc recorder. Speaker wire. Suction hose

‘It uses sound and sculptural assemblage to explore and define architectural space and to investigate the borders between sound and music’

pipes moved up and down- breathing and echoed something living within the installation, similar to idea of parasitical wires alive within dead office space.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster:

‘TH.2058’ (turbine hall, 2008)

‘Wry take on apocalypse’

‘biblical deluge’

super sized scultpures, swollen with rain, metal bunks strewn with ‘disaster literature’ and end of the world clips

My initial proposal for room 19 was to create an installation of computer cables gradually becoming ivy vines and taking up the office room like a parasite.  The idea was that the dereliction of the office space had been taken over by nature, grabbing hold of the empty room and ruining its sources of modern technology and communication.  This idea came from the scattered dead leaves that I had noticed in several of the office rooms around the building.

 My idea however has now changed to represent something more technological, with the leaves seeming too obvious and almost a cliché.  The room will be taken up by computer cables, with an emphasis on the electricity running through them taking over the building.  The parasitical nature of the piece will still be there, but in a subtle way. 

 The viewpoint of the room is something that will also have to be taken into deep consideration when planning the installation. The long shape of the room creates a narrow perspective, leading towards a raised alter by the window.  This means that I will have a lot of space to play with, and a lot of different viewing points to think about. One option is to manipulate the viewer’s vision by blocking off the room so that they cannot enter it, as if the parasite is too dangerous an object to physically encounter.  I might dot his by covering the doorframe with Perspex, or something similarly transparent but lightweight and transportable (so not glass). This way the viewer can look in and see the room exactly as I want them too, with the cables possibly ending abruptly at the Perspex, to create an invasive atmosphere.

I am also interested in developing the idea of using sound within the installation.  To heighten the idea of the parasitical technology being the most powerful force in the derelict room, I want to have electrical buzzing noises, possibly discontinuous and harsh-sounding. I was considering using the long, drawn-out dial-up noises that computers used to make when connecting to the Internet before the introduction of broadband.