Meeting Room for Listening
What constitutes a meeting room for listening?
And how can this question be explored through an interactional installation?
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The installation were created in one of the studios at Arts Letters and Numbers and only with elements from the ‘material room’
Meeting Room for Listening, detail
Possible set of instruction for entering and interacting with the installation*:
Enter the meeting room slowly
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Look the horse into its eyes
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Find a good chair for yourself
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Sit down for minimum 10 minutes in search for peace
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Befriend the stone on your chair before leaving the meeting room
*You are not allowed to speak in the Meeting Room for Listening
Meeting Room for Listening, detail
Meeting Room for Listening, detail
From the speaker will white noise fill the meeting room.
Meeting participants will be sitting with their back towards the table.
The white upper-body mannequins called the meeting.
Meeting Room for Listening, detail
Meeting Room for Listening, detail
Meeting Room for Listening, detail
Meeting Room for Listening, detail
Notes:
The horse were found in the material room is mostly included as an impossible object’ – something that generates and disturbs any pre-describe balance or expectation for the room
In the installation functioned as a testing ground and was developed over time. Visiting artists shall be free to change anything.