Memorials to Active Listening II, 2013
Concrete, mp3 players, earbuds
380mm X 380mm X 380mm
Installed at SITE 2013, DSA, Dunedin
Memorials to Active Listening II, 2013
Acetate lathe-cut records

12''⦰
Installed at SITE 2013, DSA, Dunedin
Memorials to Active Listening was a project carried out in three phases dealing with the poetics of recording, presentation, re-presentation and site.

For the second iteration of Memorials to Active Listening, the four cubes, by this time mute following the inevitable failing of the batteries powering the mp3 players concealed within them, were re-displayed at The Dunedin School of Art alongside four clear 12'' lathe-cut records containing the sounds once present at the recording-sites. As 'objets d' art', the cubes took on a consciously sardonic stance. In their objective weight and mass, inert beyond their physical presence in relation to art-history, each stood in stark contrast to the four corresponding translucent discs quietly mounted on the far wall.