Listen in.

i like melanys idea of recording and playing and listening and eavesdropping and messaging and all that jazz.

we get some recording equipment, people can leave their responses to the exhibition, messages, thoughts anything. this is all then added to another machine where people can listen to what people have said or are saying, live, rewind it fast forward. its talking to yourself but other people are listening, then talking about what they have just heard.

Elmgreen & Dragset - Phone home

http://www.ubu.com/film/relational.html

fast forward to 4:22 for what im talking about

Katie Paterson - Vatnajökull (the sound of)
http://www.katiepaterson.org/vatnajokull/vatnajokull-info.html
where you call a number and listen to a microphone placed deep inside a glacier in iceland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voicemail

also, can we go here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers

Silence?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Film

Silent Films? Only had this idea in response to the body language post. Also sign Language?

the power of silence too, sign language and silent film?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbba8fzLPf4&feature=related

(this film is a clip from one of the top grossing silent films its from 1915?)

random ideas.

x

Lets get spiritual!

Has anyone ever tried to pay a bill and has had a fantastic conversation with a very sophisticated automated phone call?
I am endlessly impressed by artificial intelligence.

Redemption has never been so easy.

Repent here at:
http://www.titane.ca/igod/

Onomatopoeia

From Wikipedia:
"Onomatopoeia (also spelled onomatopœia, from Greek: ονοματοποιΐα) also called imitative harmony, is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, such as animal noises like "oink" or "meow", or suggesting its source object, such as "boom", "zoom", "click", "bunk", "clang", "buzz", "zap", or "bang". The word is a synthesis of the Greek words όνομα (onoma, = "name") and ποιέω (poieō, = "I make" or "I create") thus it essentially means "name creation", although it makes more sense combining "name" and "I do", meaning it is named (and spelled) as it sounds (e.g. quack, bang, etc.).Onomatopoeia (also spelled onomatopœia, from Greek: ονοματοποιΐα) also called imitative harmony, is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, such as animal noises like "oink" or "meow", or suggesting its source object, such as "boom", "zoom", "click", "bunk", "clang", "buzz", "zap", or "bang". The word is a synthesis of the Greek words όνομα (onoma, = "name") and ποιέω (poieō, = "I make" or "I create") thus it essentially means "name creation", although it makes more sense combining "name" and "I do", meaning it is named (and spelled) as it sounds (e.g. quack, bang, etc.)"

On this notion we could imitate the sound of a wave, or an explosion using onomatopoeic words. 'Imitative harmony' sounds lovely.

Aisha

Herbert Read

I was having a look at the ICA website and discovered that Herbert Read was it's co-founder. I have read several essays from his book to 'To Hell with Culture' and I plan to read more. He was a poet, art and literature critic.

From Wikipedia; "Politically Read regarded himself as an anarchist, albeit in the English quitest tradition of Edward Carpenter and William Morris".

From the ICA website; "The ICA's founding principle was emphatically to stimulate dicussion, vitality, daring experiment and provide an alternative to 'another museum' or 'bleak exhibition gallery'. Over the last 60 years the institution has remained true to these ideals and continued to work across the broadest possible range of artistic and intellectual fields to encourage wider, sometimes unorthodox, understanding of art and culture" 

 Being the 'youth panel'  yet taking inspiration from the institutions founder could be an interesting thing to do...

express yourself

Also this might be rubbish but what about going down the interactive line making the space available for anyone to come in and write whatever they want, record whatever they want giving them the ability to express themselves in any way.
Therefore the finished product would be a piece of art so massive full of the visitors thoughts, themselves being individual artists and as a group as a whole a big bunch of words and sound that could mean anything.

heavy and light reading

Here are some books on Curating and the theoretical study of museums and galleries that people might want to look at??

Hooper-Greenhill, E. (1999) ŒMuseum learners as active postmodernists:
contextualizing constructivism¹, in E. Hooper-Greenhill (ed) The educational
role of the museum, London and New York : Routledge, pp.67-72 (handout)

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, B. (1991) ŒObjects of ethnography¹, in Ivan Karp
and Steven D. Lavine (eds), The poetics and politics of museum display,
Washington and London : Smithsonian Institution Press, pp.386-443

Vergo, P. (ed) (1989) The new museology, Reaktion Books

Schubert, K. (2000) The curator's egg, One-off Press

Also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna_Simpson

The picture above is from artist Lorna Simpson who plays with text and phrases within her work.If you look at the idea of voice as sound and see what would happen if you fastened up loads of words, ie like Chinese whispers or recorded it, i think it would be quite interesting.