On 21st June and 24th June, as part of the exhibition Listening and Being, I did a two- and four-hour performance, respectively. as part of that performance I sat, with my ear pressed against the room-sized mirror and listened to myself.
Unlike previous listening projects, where the aim is to focus on the external sound stimuli from the cities - to attend to the environment i am in by observing its sound - the 'sounds' I am listening to are not recordable with a device. They do not reflect the physical nature of a space, but a psychological space - my own.
Because of this, the sounds heard cannot be directly noted, or transcribed, but has to come from a memory recall. Obviously this is not scientifically ideal, but perhaps it reflects how we are influenced by what lingers in our internal dialogue.
21 JUNE
[this is just a short list of what i recall from opening night. it was far more jumbled and eratic than this list suggests]
24 JUNE
*this seems to be an extension of the listening to the country work i'm doing in Western Australia.
