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| Cardiff & Miller, 'Opera for a Small Room', mixed-media installation, 2005. Screen shot. |
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are 2 Canadian artists who work together primarily producing sound and sculptural works. I have included this particular project of theirs in my research because of some similarities that my research project and their installation share with each other, not on the basis of concept and/or content, but on the basis of the materials that have been used in order to compose a context. Opera for a Small Room is a mixed media installation including sound, record players, records and synchronized lighting.
At this point, it would be very usefull to concider a small extract from the project's description that is available through their website: ''...There are twenty-four antique loudspeakers out of which come songs, sounds, arias, and occasional pop tunes. There are almost two thousand records stacked around the room and eight record players, which turn on and off robotically syncing with the soundtrack. The sound of someone moving and sorting albums is heard. The audience cannot enter the room. To see and hear his world, they have to look through windows, holes in the walls, and cracks in the doorways and watch his shadow move around the room.''
In conclusion, while that sort of construction of a situation is very interesting and provoking(image 2), personally I find a bit frustrating the fact that one does not really understands what this situation is about -beyond the obvious- and most importantly, what is the outcome -visual, conceptual or other- seeking to communicate. You can see more about this project here.
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| Cardiff & Miller, 'Opera for a Small Room', mixed-media installation, 2005. Screen shot. |
Nikos Georgopoulos,
London,
May 2012
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