Audio Tour: Angela Bulloch

 Angela Bulloch speaking about her installation

NARRATOR: Stop—pause here, outside this room. This installation includes sound, and the artist, Angela Bulloch, wants to tell you a bit about it before you venture inside.

ANGELA BULLOCH: Walking into the installation, you’ll see a number of things: a suspended ceiling, and a raised floor, and between those things there’s an awful lot of string.

Also, there’s a soundtrack; that soundtrack I commissioned from a sound artist, Florian Hecker.

The installation’s called The Disenchanted Forest times 1001 You’ll notice, in a very straight line all around the parameter of the exhibition space, the installation, there are these small aluminium plaques with numbers on them. And those small plaques are something which is manufactured to number trees. Now this is something I found in Berlin, actually, all along the Tiergarten. Myself, I’m actually from a forest, from the middle of Canada, and I find it very peculiar, the idea of numbering your trees.

The program sequence which controls different things, in particular, the light--it’s about 15 minutes long, just slightly over—it basically cuts across a different kind of time zone, which is the length of the sound track. So what you don’t have at the same time is exactly the same sound and light event.

With the string, I’m referencing the very well known artist Marcel Duchamp. I’m referencing a particular work of his, called Sixteen Miles of String and with this string he made an installation within an exhibition, and the idea was to, perhaps to guide the viewers from painting to painting, or from place to place around the exhibition, a bit like,(slightly amused here) if you have an audioguide, you go to the number and you press a button and you hear my voice, for instance.

NARRATOR: Go inside now. When you’re back outside, you can hear a sound piece from an earlier work by Angela Bulloch. When you’re ready, just press the green PLAY button.

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