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(2023)

re-shapable sound installation based on phatic phrases

Spatial installation consisting of syllables from phatic utterances like ‘hear from you soon’ , ‘see you soon’ , or ‘let’s get a coffee sometime soon’, it forms an abstract score of these rhytmic phrases without a necessary bond for authenticity. These phrases are actually left in an open space as surface-like gestures. Each sentence listed on the floor, it forms a tactical code for phrases that don’t necessarily mean anything to the one who receives them. Accompanied with a hollow sound loop of generated recordings of clapping rhythms of these sentences, it loops in the space with reverb, activating these white wooden blocks to be the scoring for this composition.
As an activation to the installation, uppest three rows of these phatic utterances of the installation were re-formed each day of the duration of the exhibition , based on the phrases heard in the audience. If there was no new phatic phrases, no new row were formed.