Dust / Tap

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Event Dust / Tap
Venue The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW
Umbrella Event Eventspace, The Listening Room
First Date 10 August 1995
Opening Date 9 August 1995
Last Date 2 September 1995
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description "Julaine Stephenson and Emil Goh curated by Penny Thwaite.
An exhibition of sound installations"

"Dust toys with the concepts surrounding mainstream audio producers' preoccupation with 'clean' sound, juxtaposed with the redundancy of domestic analog technology. ...Dust is a playful critique of these discarded audio materials. The cracks in the gallery floor boards become the 'groove' of the record, played by a sharpened fork prong stylus and gramaphone soundbox, acoustically amplifying the dust in the 'grooves'. A reverse dust bug is dusting, spreading vacuum cleaner dirt over the record/floor.
This work puts the spectator onto the record, listening to its dirt via a speeding mechanical fork prong. The shifted use of the obsolete gramophone creates a confused, nostalgic space, where the audience may wonder why they threw out their old LP...

Tap, by Emil Goh, is about the unseen massive amounts of information that is circulated about us, as individuals, on a daily basis. The work represents a "personification" of the information being exchanged between terminals and/or data processing centres. Instead of electronic screeches, we hear human voices speaking in English and in binary, about everyday occurrences, such as financial transactions etc. The viewer/listener, is in a sense, "tapping" one of these data lines.

The work comprises of two mono radios, facing each other, suspended from the ceiling at head height. Radio waves are used as a metaphor for these unseen data transfers and the radios as the sources. The viewer/listener experiences a "conversation" between the two radios/computer databanks.

Tap is part of his conversation series which deals with the issue of electronic surveillance through people's database identities and daily electronic transactions (eg credit cards, ATMs etc)"
Description Source Press Release
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Exhibition
Related Events
  • Is part of An Ear Full , Eugene Goossens Hall, Ultimo, NSW, 21 August 1995
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Penny Thwaite Curator
Emil Goh Sound Artist
Julaine Stephenson Sound Artist
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Performance Space Database media release, programme
Event Identifier 142130