Sound installation of 1442 Audio files of individual words read from accompanying essay played on shuffle, speakers installed under floorboards. Metronome, pair of whale eardrums.

From two hatches in the floor a continuous conversation unfolds punctuated by xylophone hits. The sentences are incoherent and short but as you listen it seems there is a consensus on what the subject is. I’m playing a series 1442 audio files of me reading individual words from an accom-panying publication titled ‘The period is a hole that the sentence falls into after it is read.’. The words are then either in the left or right ear of the stereo speakers, played on shuffle and contin-uous repeat from either one of the hatches. This generates a sort of endless conversation as the shuffle never repeats the same string of words together in a row. 

On the floor between the hatches a metronome ticks into and out of a whale’s eardrum propped up next to it. The eardrum resembles the profile of an old man, like half of a shrunken head. The tick of the metronome orders the structure of the sound piece. Words arranged in random order which hint at the potential of meaning or intention behind them, something large, something obstructed. Something in the periphery of your vision. Talking in circles, dancing around the subject. In second room I placed the other eardrum along with copies of the accompanying publication. The publication consists of two narrative dialogues split up between texts that address the reader. The first is the Passenger, a bus traveler which discusses the temporality of identity, thought and reading with his slightly future-self. The second is the Hiker which discusses truth, subjectivity and writing with his shadow as they hike up a mountain. The audio pieces continuous conversation then becomes a refraction of opinions and arguments stated in the text, opening up the structure and order of the words to interpretation.