Factory Spirit
Chiang Mai 1993
Steel, Glass, model figurines and vehicles.
350mm x 250mm x 350mm
x2 units.
This miniature public sculpture consisted of two factory/showrooms installed in the niches of the boundary wall of a large Buddhist Temple in the centre of Chiang Mai. Kneeling outside of each factory, two small supplicants (a common item found at Buddhist shrines) stare fixedly at the shiny western car placed within the factory. Adjacent to them, a small slot-like door admits a continuous stream of worker ants, attracted by a large pot of honey hidden within the factory.
This playful critique of the ambivalent attitudes with which Thai culture regards the mixed blessings of Western Culture caused heated debate within the Temple community!
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It is ironic that the website of a Sound Artist contains very little audio material. This is, of course, intentional, the principal reasons being that I place a strong emphasis on the experience of a work in-situ, mediated as it is by the environmental context and the listening trajectory of the viewer/auditor. Secondly, the majority of these projects are multi-source environments, often operating with interactive or dynamic elements that are virtually impossible to represent as a linear stereo field.
A method I have adopted, that in some part overcomes such problems of Audio representation of complex sound installations, is to develop parallel Radiophonic projects. These Radio works are designed to give a general impression of the content and intention of the Installations whilst recognising the linear and more narrative form of stereo broadcast.
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