Qui Tacet Consentit
I've been working on the installation with my housemate. We want to find a functional confessional booth, so people have the tactile experience of sitting in one. If none materialise, we may end up building one.
The aims of this project are thus:
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I am overwhelmed at how depersonalised our communication has become. We seem to spend more time typing into a PC or a phone than actually looking at someone and talking to them. I don't like it. So it is actually a protest. Your postings are actually a protest to the technolisation of our communication by using that medium itself.
2.
I'm not sure if God is dead or alive. But maybe he has an email address or chat room. Maybe if you come and see the installation (when it's ready), you will be able to chat 'live' to God. The plan is to have a computer in the booth so you can confess to the Almighty via the internet.
3.
My housemate thinks that ASIO have put a bug in his head. So they can monitor him and his seditious colleagues. As a result you will be able to confess your sins to Big Brother and maybe spared the Ministry of Love. The plan is to install some CCTV and have it live streaming to a webpage for the world to see what's happening in the booth. It is in revolt to the current anti-everything laws that are stripping our rights, privileges and need to express ourselves as creative individuals. If we do not speak out about injustice then we are willing accomplices. It is our duty to inform ourselves of injustice and fight to stop it in every way we can.
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While this is happening there will be maybe 4 separate channels placed in different parts of the booth. Each will playing a different confession from this blog. They will be out of phase with each other. It will be interesting to see the soundscape that is created from this tactile and interactive installation. So please leave your confessions on this page. I really want to involve as many people as I can. I could just make up confessions myself, but that is undermining the community spirit I'm trying to achieve by overriding the technological desert that seems to be isolating us. Hopefully we can use it to bring us together and break down barriers. Not build them up.
Thanks,
posted by wolf spritzer @ 10:08 PM
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