Wakow Notes 12/4/05
Secretary: Davide d’Oro
“Tulsa boxes”
each has sound, image, word
"Best Buy Box"
"Starbox"
wall, website, etc.
boxers as neighborhoods--relational
connections are as important as individual boxes
sound
allow listener to manipulate w/in certain parameters?
imagined sounds
conversations, real and fictional
allow listeners to record…impressions of Tulsa?
sort of like a non-internet blog
collecting/archiving reactions
solicit audience photos, etc.
perhaps create another box with that material
make portable, move to different venues across city
cd be boxes scattered around a room, diff. maps on walls and floor, somehow integrated or in competition w/ boxes
maps
weaving lines of type, images into map shapes
visual thesaurus, virtual map
map as overlay of informational units
Deleuze and Guattari on map vs tracing, associative rather than literal
leaving 1 layer on a map that’s familiar, then adding our own layers
maps that allow viewer choices, show associations but don’t dictate pathway
or drawers, cabinets, rather than boxes (architect’s drawers, Brothers Quay “Street of Crocodiles”
South Tulsa as dildo
balloons w/ stuff in ‘em
what about not trying to represent Tulsa
pieces of photographs, collages
tacking up photos, hanging on string
the blender approach
signs
erase words in signs, add in our own language
or keep words erased and have sound emerge from the wall
what can one pick up: photo
piece of paper
recording/listening device
M: take it off the wall
process of walking through space replicates our own experience
antecedents:
fluxus experiments with boxes
Joseph Cornell
Mexican ritual boxes
suitcases
Other display options: projection
blow up poems
install listening devices in books
artist books
treated books, like the Oklahoma textbook
integrated photos
pasted language
projection
M: seems tooo usual to just project on a wall
G: can use projection to create texture, light, etc. (mattress installation at Contemporary Museum of Art in Chicago)
What if we make sound the focal point?
Slideshow with sound?
sound piped into a room where one’s looking at photos
headsets
suitcase for the part w/ the abandoned hotel?
suitcase as imagined history, detritus of human life?
do an installation at abandoned hotel?
