Intimacy Vented into Public Space

Resonant Remnant is a site-specific audio installation for public spaces. The work uses urban architecture as a metaphorical conduit as well as a physical stage. Declarations of love serve as source material and are carefully displaced and re-arranged in order to set up temporary, (im)possible relations between the speakers (and the passersby).

These confessions, which attempt to convey the intensity of inner feelings, are ‘dumped’ into the public sphere: a transit space where usually no one ever stops. The boundary between the hyper personal and the anonymous blurs when, sporadically, these disembodied voices attempt to involve the passersby in their stories.

Resonant Remnant  questions the validity and sincerity of these statements and the potential  emboldening/eroding effect of their repetition. Do these fragile messages lose their value when “dumped” on the street? Do they lose sincerity due to (over)exposure? Do they lure the travelers into a willingness to listen or eavesdrop?

_{audio installation 2015 || stereo || loop}