2007
Collaboration with Millie Chen
Audio installation
Media: 32 speakers, 2 pro amplifiers, 16 cd players, fabric covered built walls
Dimensions: 77 sq. m
Photos: Didier Morel
Extreme Centre is an audio installation in the form of a maze. As visitors negotiate the twisting passages, they hear a cacophony of whispering, issued from speakers set into the passage walls. The sound of whispering ushers visitors along the passages but also engenders a range of reactions from unease, insecurity and paranoia to intimacy and the conspiratorial. Concentrating on individual speakers, the listener can then decipher text, sourced from a range of authors across vast geographies, epochs and political positions. The common denominator of all the text is the arguable categorization of “extreme.”
