Virtual Space, 2009

                                            View of the installation presented in 2009 as part of the Uncut exhibition, 
                                            at the Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In this installation, there are two  disctinctly separate rooms:  the exhibition room and the performance room.  

In the performance room, the performer is naked in the darkness, waiting for the audience in the exhibition room to make sounds to the microphone.  If they do so, the aucience will see something on the tv.  Their sounds will triger a projecter onto the performer.  So They will see a human body being lit by a projection consisting of still images of surfaces  (wood, water, rock, etc) changing according to the way they use their voice.  If they don't produce any sound, no image is projected in the performance room, thus the tv will be pitch dark again. 

Every time there is a projection being shown the performer, you can hear her making vocal sounds because she has agreed to the rule to respond to the visuals by vocal sounds, trying to translate them into sounds.  The audience can hear her, at the same time as they can see her.  They can thus play along with what they hear of her.  She cannot see them and cannot hear them.  She can only infer their presence by the fact that images are being projected on her.  She  is thus not influenced by their choice of noises, she can thus stay as objective in her sounds as it is possible to be.

A TV, a microphone on a stand, and a transparent 360° dome 
speaker.  This is a view of the exhibition space with no audience 
present.  The projector in the remote performance room, not 
being triggeredby the voice of the audience, there is no image 
displayed on the television in the exhibition space.