Thur 29th Sept to Sun 2nd Oct
Over the four days of Electrofringe, Lauren Brown will actively listen to and publicly post all the sounds heard at the festival. Data mapping meets performance art.
A site-specific performance in which the act of listening becomes performative. The sounds of public life are attended to, bringing them to being through listening.
At Festival sites and around selected parts of Newcastle City during the festival, the artist will stand, listen to and note the ambient sound. The act of listening documents the site in terms of its sound, brings to being those sounds (in the vein of ‘if a tree falls in the wood… ). Those sounds become lists and annotated on a large billboard in the city. They become a sound map of the Festival as it unravels over the weekend. Sound becomes public, private and public again.
Artist
Lauren Brown
Venue
