From january to april 2003 I worked in the guest studio at Aras Eanna on Inis Oírr, the smallest of the Aran Islands on the westcoast of Ireland. This period has been inspiring for the development of my work with the relationship between time/space, and language. I have described cloud movements, waves, landscapes and rock structures in the form of 'written' drawings. I also described these elements verbally and recorded this on tape. In concluding my work period on the island, I selected a stone, on which I marked the four wind directions, and asked a number of islanders to give an oral description of the form, structure and colour of the stone. In the sound installation 'Limestone' their descriptions are heard simultaneously from a various number of loudspeakers in a continuous flow of voices.
year
2003
location
origin: Inis Oírr Aran Islands Ireland
brief description
The voices of 18 islanders, discribing a stone, are heard from loudspeakers