At the final event for the exhibition Descent to Revolution organized by BUREAU FOR OPEN CULTURE, please join us on NOVEMBER 24 at 4:30 p.m. for the opening celebration of AUDIBLE DWELLING by Learning Site. Audible Dwelling is located in a parking lot at Columbus College of Art & Design at the corner of N. Washington and E. Long Streets.
ABOUT AUDIBLE DWELLING
Audible Dwelling is a combination loudspeaker and dwelling. It is composed of two identical units that make it into a composite stereo house. Each unit has two compartments; one compartment is a site for meeting and considering what we hear, what we say in relation to the sound of public space. The other compartment contains speakers and the transmission line, a space especially designed with inspiration from Eileen Gray's De Stijl table. In Audible Dwelling, the interior design optimizes how recorded sound is inserted, projected into public space. Audible Dwelling was constructed during Learning Site's residency in Columbus.
Learning Site created a speech that will be emitted from Audible Dwelling. The speech is about the economies of urban landscape-cars, asphalt, parking lots, malls, museums. Until the end of March 2010 the speech can be heard at irregular intervals on inconsistent days of the week.
Community members of Columbus are invited to propose various uses of Audible Dwelling, various ways to engage what they have to say with the public space of the city. What do you have to say, what do you want the public to hear?
ABOUT LEARNING SITE
Learning Site is a collective comprised of Rikke Luther from Denmark and Cecilia Wendt from Sweden. They realize projects specific to the sites in which they decide to work, drawing on local skills, resources and knowledge. Their collaborations examine intersections of natural resources, the environment, economic markets, forms of habitation, land rights, labor, and sustainability to reveal insight about conditions specific to a location. Embracing the unfamiliar and always open to experimentation, Learning Site works comfortably with unpredictable processes. They allow the making-of to be as equally integral as the completed work. The situations and works they produce hover among the abstract, fantastic, the playful and the practical, pushing concepts into new, invigorating realms of speculation that challenge conventional belief of what can be done.
ABOUT DESCENT TO REVOLUTION
September 10-November 24, 2009
Artists: Claire Fontaine, Learning Site, Red76, REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT, Tercerunquinto
Curated by James Voorhies
Descent to Revolution features five artist collectives and collaboratives that use urban spaces and social spheres as means of production and inspiration. During the course of the exhibition, participating artists visit Columbus in a series of residencies to make projects specific to the city. The work does not take place inside the space of the gallery but in concert with community and physical mediums outside of it.
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