Want, 2009

Participatory project: 3 performances, audio installation and 6-8″ x 11″ posters

The public was invited to enter the silk tent and record a voice message of one sentence starting with, “I want…..”. These messages were collected by the artist over 4 events at varying locations. At a fourth event, they were played back over loudspeakers.  In this work, I am creating an aural picture of community defined by our desires. What is it we want?

Transcriptions of the audio were later printed and posted in downtown locations. A later iteration, Projecting Want, followed in 2010.

Art City, presented by Downtown Association, Niagara Artists’ Centre and St. Catharines and Area Arts Council