Meeting Room for Listening

What constitutes a meeting room for listening?

 

And how can this question be explored through an interactional installation?

 

 

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
Meeting Room for Listening, detail

Possible set of instruction for entering and interacting with the installation*:

 

Enter the meeting room slowly

Look the horse into its eyes

Find a good chair for yourself

Sit down for minimum 10 minutes in search for peace

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
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.

Meeting Room for Listening, detail