HW# 8/2 Sound Artist: Janet Cardiff and George Miller

        

    

Artists Janet Cardiff and George Miller worked together creating a series of audio which were functioned as a tour audio, where the audience would be listening the audio while walking on specific paths. What is creative about this series of work is that both artists cleverly used the audio with the physical experience (walking/looking) at a specific site. This creates a very unique and personal experience listening to the (hi)stories about that particular site and allowing imagination to happen and to think about what's like in the story. The audio also creates a context about the site which would change the audience's perception about the location. One of the series was P.S. 1 Walk, where Cardiff and Miller made an audio where they used the staircase as a site in their storytelling. When the viewer actually walk on the staircase, the experience of walking is dependent on the context of the audio whether he/she will feel sad, scared, happy etc. In this way, audio is very powerful convincing the mood of the walking experience. Reference: http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/walks/ps1.html