Work Description: In this proposed project for Watermans, 1000 bargain bin CDs are purchased and made available to visitors to browse, playback and take-away if they wish. Rather than a constantly updated library of the latest hits, these albums are the non-sellers, the outdated, the banal and bizarre: psi-trance and Russian folk, obscure film soundtracks, cat waltzes or simply one-hit-wonders. Viewers may listen to albums on provided Discmans, or take them home, creating a type of natural selection. While the room itself is silent, the language and aesthetic of each album speak loudly about genre, market, desire, and commodity. The work focuses on the ignored, examining how the everyday music of our lives is produced, differentiated, distributed, and how time affects our collective musical tastes and media use. At the same time, if offers visitors an open invitation to a significant interactivity - altering the work itself permanently.
Supporting Material: Please see example image above (flat layout) or right (rack layout), depending on size requirements. For previous projects, see CV below or http://www.lukemunn.com/
Materials: 1000 CDs, Discmans, Tables, Crates, Store ‘patrons’. Dimensions variable.
Bio: Luke Munn is a Berlin based artist with a sound and socially focused practice. His work centres around re-activating, and re-presenting sound and our relationship to it: site-specific performances and projects that often use the architecture of a space, objects from the audience, field recordings of the area, or historically or socially derived audio. His work has featured in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Q-O2 Brussels, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Denmark, MediaNoche NYC, Laborsonor Berlin, and others - with performances in Paris, Dublin, Chicago, Berlin, Auckland, and New York, new media commissions from CNZ and Electrosmog Festival, and a recent online residency from CoLab, AUT.
Contact Details: lukemunn@lukemunn.com www.lukemunn.com Selchower Str. 31 Berlin 12049 Germany
Work Description: In this proposed project for Watermans, 1000 bargain bin CDs are purchased and made available to visitors to browse, playback and take-away if they wish. Rather than a constantly updated library of the latest hits, these albums are the non-sellers, the outdated, the banal and bizarre: psi-trance and Russian folk, obscure film soundtracks, cat waltzes or simply one-hit-wonders. Viewers may listen to albums on provided Discmans, or take them home, creating a type of natural selection. While the room itself is silent, the language and aesthetic of each album speak loudly about genre, market, desire, and commodity. The work focuses on the ignored, examining how the everyday music of our lives is produced, differentiated, distributed, and how time affects our collective musical tastes and media use. At the same time, if offers visitors an open invitation to a significant interactivity - altering the work itself permanently.
Supporting Material: Please see example image above (flat layout) or right (rack layout), depending on size requirements. For previous projects, see CV below or http://www.lukemunn.com/
Materials: 1000 CDs, Discmans, Tables, Crates, Store ‘patrons’. Dimensions variable.
Bio: Luke Munn is a Berlin based artist with a sound and socially focused practice. His work centres around re-activating, and re-presenting sound and our relationship to it: site-specific performances and projects that often use the architecture of a space, objects from the audience, field recordings of the area, or historically or socially derived audio. His work has featured in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Q-O2 Brussels, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Denmark, MediaNoche NYC, Laborsonor Berlin, and others - with performances in Paris, Dublin, Chicago, Berlin, Auckland, and New York, new media commissions from CNZ and Electrosmog Festival, and a recent online residency from CoLab, AUT.
Contact Details: lukemunn@lukemunn.com www.lukemunn.com Selchower Str. 31 Berlin 12049 Germany