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 February 15 (Friday) - March 24 (Sunday), 2002 Gallery B
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Preface |
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"ENDSVILLE", by Roland BRENER and TAKASHIMA Yoko, is an interactive installation in which the viewers themselves dramatize a city through sound.
The gallery is occupied by twenty-four computer-designed, miniature houses made of cardboard. Light bulbs suspended from the gallery ceiling hang so that one is inside each house. Microphones also hang from the ceiling. Visitors' chatter or other production of sounds changes the state of the illumination in each of the houses. Similarly, the installation's sound effects also respond to visitors' actions: random sounds and sampled urban sounds (such as sounds of trains or street sounds) are played back, depending on the phrases or rhythms of the audio inputs from the visitors. That interaction creates the "ENDSVILLE" soundscape. While the computer-designed urban scene at first reminds one of a mechanical and antiseptic "city of the future," somewhere, some when, the soundscape resituates it. The sounds used to generate the urban soundscape range from the fondly remembered sounds of long ago to the disharmonious, quarrelsome sounds of the contemporary city; they both obscure the contours of the periodization of the cityscape and make it anything but antiseptic. "ENDSVILLE" thus is an installation that encourages visitors to rethink what the city means to each of them.
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Artist's Talk