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Human beings contextualise political and social spaces by using text and images to record stories, factual data, memories, observations and recollections. For Submerged, I have produced The Cistern, which starts with the display of a simple map of the Hot Baths. This is the entry point to the digital domain. An orchestration of found water and machinery sounds emanate from the surrounding rooms and across the ceiling, giving a resonance to the physical space, and evoking visions of past functions. At the actual site the installation is located in a disused cubicle adjoining a set of small rooms and comprisies of a touch-screen computer and associated sounds. As the user engages with the map, it becomes apparent that interaction reveals a series of detailed images of the human body marked with hidden text, symbols, and images. These can only be discovered by moving one's finger over images, and viewing a macro version of the surface landscape. This process of mapping and investigation reveals sounds and voices from the past and present that resonate from the adjacent rooms, evoking a sense of passage through space and time. Ordinary and natural sounds give way to distant voices telling stories of water, cures, miracles, spiritual experiences, pleasure and pain.
This is not just a map of directions but a map of human interactions. With one touch, the visitor begins a journey through the digital domain to activate the physical space. Gossip, myths, architecture and science are some of the elements that go to formulate the experience and show the presence of the past in the future. |
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