Compliments
(2000)
Sound installation
Gallery version:
2 speakers, CD player, recorded sounds and
interviews from Malm
Public spaces-version:
CD-player with built-in speakers, recorded
sounds and interviews from Malm
During 2000 I was selected with a few other
artists to represent Malm in the International art biennial Artgenda 2000 in
Helsinki, Finland.
My piece was "Compliments" and was an
audio fingerprint from Malm, based on interviews with residents on the topic
of their favorite sounds. Some people tended to prefer sirens or dusting
machines, others birds, but one thing that returned now and then in the various
talks was compliments from one person to another.
I recorded various compliments as well as
selected favored sounds from the soundscape of Malm, then edited them together
into a 20-minute composition.
"Compliments" was then exhibited in
four places in Helsinki, at Makasiinii, in the big official exhibition spaces,
but also at a number of secret but public places, such as toilets (one at
Makasiini), at Lasipalatsi, and the caf at Swedish theatre.
The piece was also shown in Malm at Panora
after the premiere in Helsinki.
