TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

12:52 PM
Posted by jodi rose

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/phoning-glaciers-at-3am.html

Friday, June 08, 2007
Phoning glaciers at 3am

Iceland's Vatnajökull glacier.

The Guardian tells us today about a "unique work of art" that "invites viewers to phone a glacier in Iceland - and listen to its death throes, live, through a microphone submerged deep in the bitterly cold lagoon."
The weatherproof microphone thus "relays the splashes, creaks and groans as great masses of melting ice sheer off and crash into the water."

You just have to call the following number: +44 (0) 7758 225698 (a British mobile phone - non-Brits, beware huge long-distance fees!) to "make direct contact with the polar icecap."

However, the article warns us: "Only one caller at a time can get through: [artist Katie] Paterson recommends the small hours of the morning."
So, if you're extremely rich and cursed with insomnia, you can always lull yourself to sleep, sitting up at 3am near the kitchen window with your telephone pressed hard against your ear, listening to the groan of distant glaciers... I tried to get through a few hours ago, but dialed the wrong number - connecting instead to the subterranean roar of Mt. Hood.
Perhaps there should be a telephone directory for natural phenomena.


TALK WITH ME
http://www.radioartemobile.it/

ACHILLE BONITO OLIVA:

A GROUP OF VERY YOUNG ARTISTS, ALL RECENTLY GRADUATED AT IUAV (ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DI ARCHITETTURA DI VENEZIA), GO AROUND THE LAGOON CITY IN THE SPACES THAT HOST THE EXHIBITIONS AND COLLATERAL EVENTS OF THE BIENNALE. THEY MEET AS MANY OF THE ARTISTS AS POSSIBLE THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE BIENNALE THROUGH INTERVIEWS AND WANT TO TESTIFY THEIR PRESENCE LIVE, INTENDED NOT ONLY AS PRODUCERS OF THE WORKS ON DISPLAY, BUT ALSO AS AUTHORS OF A POETIC THOUGHT EXPRESSED WITH THE WORD.
RAM - RADIOARTEMOBILE PROMOTES THESE LOOSE ENCOUNTERS, HAND TO HAND WITH ARTISTS OF DIFFERENT GENERETIONS AND COUNTRIES, UNDER THE GESTURE OF THE VERBAL MEETING AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE. A FURTHER STEP IN COMMUNICATION BEHIND AN ART SYSTEM THAT, RATHER, MOVES UNDER THE PERFORMATIVE GESTURE OF THE PUBLIC EVENT. INSTEAD , "TALK WITH ME" REPRESENTS THE ATTEMPT TO CREATE A SPACE OF CULTURAL INTIMACY THAT PERMITS ARTISTS TO SPEAK AND LISTEN TO EACH OTHER, IN A DIMENSION THAT EXCLUDES COMPETITION AND INCLUDES A SOCRATIC CADENCE.

INTERVIEWS BY:
ROBERTO DE PO
ANDREA DE STEFANI
ELISA FERRARI
ANDREA GALIAZZO
GIOVANNI GIARETTA
EMILIANO PISTACCHI
GIANANDREA POLETTA
DIEGO TONUS
SARA TOSO
CHIARA VECCHIARELLI

more info on www.soundartmuseum.net

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not sure what a socratic cadence is either. something about juxtaposition?
anyway, a few weird sound art links that have passed my way recently. funny how the moment of conversation seems to be a happening thing.