Was that installation a kind of aural prototype for this project? So you set up this back and forth pattern of sound and of movement by the viewer. Standing in the middle of the room you hear a voice both to the left and the right, but the words are much sharper and more intense the closer you get to the speakers. Robert Storr In your Get Out of My Mind, Get Out of this Room 1968 the visitor enters on a central axis, but the side-to-side dynamic is very important. Robert Storr Considering its size, the hall isn’t that wide.īruce Nauman It’s roughly 150 metres long, but a mere 21 or 22 metres wide.
The speakers are going to be mounted on the long walls of the Turbine Hall facing each other in pairs, so you walk through these bands of sound as you go down the ramp and into the space. Robert Storr So the whole project is organised as a sequence of zones?īruce Nauman Yes. There is always something going on to draw you into the space. Then it becomes fuzzy as it merges with the next one, and then the next one becomes clear. When you walk into an area several metres wide the text is very clear. At this point there are actually about twenty texts, which create an overall ambient sound. That was what I was looking for: working horizontally was much better than having the sound come from above – it’s as if when you walk through the space, you come through wave after wave of different texts. Then we found a supplier who came up with flat panel speakers that were very directional. The idea of sounds coming from above and being isolated was a little problematic – how would visitors know to continue on into the rest of the hall? The first time I went there the equipment I had wasn’t working very well. So you have to do something to draw people further into the other half of the space. But it’s a very long, narrow space that is also one of the entrances to the museum, and halfway down you make a left turn to go into the galleries. I had the idea of visitors walking into one area of sound and then into another. Robert Storr When you said you wanted to make a collage, did you already have an idea about which specific texts you were going to use and how they might relate to each other?īruce Nauman No, I didn’t really know how they would connect.
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