CORRIDOR (Audio – running time 35mins) FEBRUARY 2015

 

 

The work I produced in CORRIDOR stemmed from a group collaboration for a corridor exhibition between the 4th and 10th of February 2015. After holding a preliminary meeting we decided that rather than create an exhibition we would prefer to hold a residency within the allocated time period. As a group (including Mark Goldby, Deeya Mirchandani and Xiang Fang) we decided to produce work that was site-responsive to the WCA corridor.

 

CORRIDOR is a sound piece based on a field recording from the corridor beneath the railways lines at Wimbledon Chase station. I was particularly interested in this place due to its acoustics created via the concrete encasing and dimensions. The place acts as a perfect echo chamber and there is a resonance to all of the sounds that are created within the confines. CORRIDOR was another attempt at a phenomenological archive in its attempts to capture the movement and immeasurable qualities of a liminal space. During the recording the group occupied the corridor at Wimbledon Chase and performed a number of actions. We used a Tibetan singing bowl and a tennis ball. The Tibetan singing bowl stemmed from our interest in the durational element of meditation. I was also particularly interested in how meditation can be aligned with accessing the pre-reflective state as similarly in meditation “one has to use one's own reflective capacities in a different way” (Kozel, S. Closer. MIT: 2007). The tennis ball was a follow-on from PROJECT SPACE and was again used to create a skewed report on the dimensions of the particular place.

 

Once the field-recording was made I elongated the audio to lengthen the resonance of each of the individual components. This was an attempt to explore the extended present of the situation.

 

Finally CORRIDOR was then played back in the WCA corridor as part of the residency so that we could then respond to the sound as we worked and use it as a starting point for what we would create within the place. As a group we would re-evaluate the corridor each day for the time period of the audio. CORRIDOR was a phenomenological archive of the Wimbledon Chase corridor and also helped form the basis of a phenomenological archive of the WCA corridor.