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| Cildo Meireles - Babel 2001 |
Friday, October 13, 2017
OUGD603 - Brief 1 - Tate Modern London - Installation Research
To investigate further how an environment is used to portray emotion, I visited the Tate Modern Museum in London as a variety of installations are currently on display at this moment. The most physically empowering and relevant is the space below which encompasses hundreds of speakers and radios stacked into a tower all playing different sounds. The effect of this is truly gripping as you can feel the sound travel through your skin. For me personally, as soon as I walked into the room, I got goosebumps which is precisely the effect which I would want to experience when entering a multi sensory installation.
'This vast tower of radios, each tuned to a different channel and adjusted to the minimum volume at which it is audible, relates to the biblical story of the Tower of Babel: a tower tall enough to reach the heavens. Affronted by this structure, God caused the builders to speak in different languages and, ceasing to understand one another, become divided and scattered across the earth. According to myth, this inability to communicate became the cause of all mankind’s conflicts.'
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