COLLABORATION- IMAGES AND SOUND OF MY INSTALLATION FROM THE EXHIBITION

This is the Final version if the soundscape I used for the exhibition :

Here is the documentation of the set up from the exhibition :

I started by placing all of the foliage down to see what would aesthetically looks nice and also to figure out how much room the walk way needed in order for people to easily pass through. I then laid down chicken wire where needed, crushing it with my hands to create forms mimicking mounds found in nature. After that I covered the chicken wire with binbags to make sure that none of the foliage I was placing on the wire mounds would fall through (it also enables you to find more of a structure to the piece and means that the clean up isn’t as messy). Then I started placing down the moss and leaves, making sure that I had enough to cover all of the set.Once the daylight started to fade I carefully placed the tealigths in order to light up specific areas of the set to give a forest pathway feel.

These are some initial reflections from the exhibition:

• I trailed the scavenger hunt and gave suggestions about what was wrong (instructions didn’t lead me past the apothecary, confusion about crossing the road, confusion about the last clue not able to understand) The idea came from a pilgrimage both me and my sister did on the spring equinox
• issues arise when creating the installation as the floor of the show room seemed as if I could be easily scratched, as I was using chicken wire I didn’t want to leave any marks but didn’t have any materials to stop this, so I went on a hunt around the local area to find cardboard which I finally did so I could put the cardboard under the wire so it wouldn’t leave any marks.
• I had to make sure to leave enough space with the walkway installation so people could walk through it easily. I should had considered this more as it was only a one way system in the end and some of the materials got damaged.
• I had to make sure that the speakers were at the right levels as not to interfere with the other sound works.
• Leo’s contact mic piece’s sound was too high that all of the other works we getting drowned out (I got Leo to turn the volume down, but it ended up being turned up again – it was frustrating because the other works needed their own sonic spaces and Leos was invading all of theirs)
• We also did not expect for so many people to turn up. In the end there was about 300 or more people when we were only expecting around 100, this meant that the bar was over run for the whole night, the security ha to be tighter and there wasn’t much space downstairs.