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’
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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
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Meeting Room for Listening, detail
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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.
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Meeting Room for Listening, detail
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Meeting Room for Listening, detail
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Meeting Room for Listening, detail
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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.
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