Isn’t It Normal? MoMA PS1, New York, touring group exhibition 0044, USA and Ireland. 1999/2000

Constructed of modular Dexalin steel shelving units with two hundred and forty flickering light bulbs with power black cable used as a visual sculptural tool in the space. Light bulbs were inserted through holes in the shelves which have their lux-intensity controlled by a gun microphone outside the gallery. The sounds picked up from the courtyard and beyond the PS1 gallery walls were used to score the lighting and modified the soundscape within the exhibition space. By exposing the wiring the installation loomed larger forcing upon the viewer a constant somewhat menacing proximity, revealing the source of the artwork’s live external sound feed, and the fleeting exposed nature of the piece. This sonic feed plays through twelve speakers continuously modified by an effects processor, abstracting it, making it familiar and unfamiliar to the unwilling audience, as they become a participant in the basement of the gallery.