'Making Presence Felt': a project from the archive
Over a period of several months in 2014 -15, Fiona Candy became a cross between gumshoe detective, flâneur and anonymous citizen, as she investigated the spatial movement and energy of the city. At first she listened to the sounds of footfall, and made audio recordings of these traces of human presence that are heard and felt, rather than only seen. Later she crafted a series of intentionally puzzling objects that had been ‘heard' in the recordings and used digital collage pitched on the borderline between sound and music, to convey imaginative, haptic narratives. Influences included Surrealism, Film Noir, the art of Foley, forensic and movement sciences, and centred on contact made between foot and ground, where many believe we are the most fundamentally ‘in touch’ with our surroundings. To splice across the senses and bring attention to the presence of the body in motion, the material and audio exhibits were combined via an immersive gallery space, where visitors to the exhibition wore headsets as they moved about the gallery, listening, looking, imagining.
To extend the reach and impact of the Northampton gallery presentation, a collaboration with director Mark Gill, created an experimental short film.
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Listen, see what you hear (headphones recommended)
Images courtesy of Fiona Candy ©2015
For more information about this project, visit Fiona’s blog
