Anonymous letters, read or ignore them?

Norway, 2007

sound, CD audio, 3, 22 min

The Anonymous Letter Project aims at involvement with people’s private emotional space by sending them an anonymous letter. Our goal is to start processes of social interaction that transcend the usual boundaries of the art space. Procedure: the gallery officer will approach the visitor with an envelope containing a CD. Without knowing the content of the CD, the visitor will be asked to send it as an anonymous letter, to an address free of her choice. The envelope will be posted by the gallery. The content on the CD is a sound piece, that consists of simple, pure ambiences, extracted and recorded from real life situations. It intends to set up a listening process where “negotiation of space” becomes the key involvement of the listener. The recipient will have to engage in an active process of having to resolve the mystery origin of the sound. The final work is the result of different parties, of their communication and of the lack of control they have relative to each other. It depends, moreover, on the potential excitement provoked by “dismissed evidence”.

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