Border Void, 2013

Border Void, 2013

 

Border Void was a temporary sound installation at the corner of the Strawbale studio block at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, as part of the Expanded Studio Project, a collaboration between studio artists. I worked with Josepa Munoz (our studios back onto each other) to create a sound track by translating the word Border by GoogleTranslate into Dutch (my mothertongue) and back into English, and then into Catalan (Josepa’s mothertongue) etc, only to arrive after a few more rounds at the word Void:

Border grens confine confinar confine bepalen condition condicio condition staat posture postura position rang rank classifar classification classificatie ordination ordenacio arrangement afspraak tryst cita appointment ambt place lloc site plaats vacancy vacant vacancy ledigheid vacuity vacuitat emptiness leegte void