ILLUSORY VOICES

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Sound and light installation in a small chapel in the House at the Stone Bell in Prague. The chapel is sectioned by two cross vaults joining together on the ceiling in bolts with the remainders of a painting (face). The vaults were ended with cantilever. In the chapel room, portals with inserted columns, window and wall pint fragments preserved.Visitor may pass through the chapel under two fractional portal.

For the sound record she choose the hall of Hradec Kralové main railway station. Voices of people and sound resonated therewith small echoes. The first intention was that she wanted to use this sound for the chapel. She was for long hours in the hall and because it was cold she came to warm up herself to a non stop casinos with slot machines. She came unexpectedly into the sound mix of various jingles, simple melodies and the jingle of coins from slot boxes, interwoven screams and gasps of inflamed players. Finally, she made also records from casino and from the night outer space around the railway station. In a sound studio she set final 11 minutes of long repeating sequence. Sensitive reproductive audio devices supported her intention to transfer different areas and created an impressive resonance in a small chapel of the House at the Stone Bell in Prague. An inseparable and equal part of the work with the sound for the project Illusory Voices was the work with light. The intention was to hide the entire chapel in the darkness and gloom. The visitor first walked into the darkness, feeling intensively the recording. Until then the chapel began to reveal a change in the variable gloom, which the artist achieved deploying three six-foot narrow light casings lying on the floor about a foot away from the wall. Light lines were synchronized to the changing rhythm and the controlled light intensity. By synchronization luminosity from individual line there was achieved a subtle barely noticeable shift of shadow on the ribs of the chapel ceiling.