0, 16, 33, 45, 78 2004

Silent sound installation and six scheduled sound performances.

Record players, loudspeakers, cables, wooden shelf.

This piece lived multiple lives during a three-month period in 2004: part sculpture, part instrument, part silent sound installation. Actually, for most of the time it was litterally a silent sound installation, with the powercord explicitly unplugged and rolled up. During this time it was a sculpture where an old wooden shelf was straining under the weight of piles of old record players and loudspeakers, and the viewer could only imagine what sounds and volumes this monster might be capable of. However, on six scheduled occasions the sculpture was brought audibly to life, and became a humming, whirring and howling instrument, played by the artist who was dwarfed by the scale of his instrument.

Performance: Friday 25 June, Sunday 27 June

Friday 30 July, Sunday 1 August

Exhibition: 2004 Australian Culture Now, Ian Potter Center, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Australia

Photo: Jeremy Dillon