Installations that are in development - combining recorded video and real objects in the space - all adhere to a binding concept of the sound (that is in the video) being re-performed or re-generated in the space by these objects, in the presence of the audience. And since this sound is the sound that was created by the action in the video, but performed in the space live, it immerses the recorded material into the present space and time while immersing the audience, within the performance of the recording.

Lament 1+2 is an installation for video and a grid of wooden chairs, with each chair electronically triggered so that it's wood resonates, effectively turning the chair into a speaker, and a seperate channel of audio. As each audience member sits in a chair that then ‘speaks’, they watch other audience members in the video - in mirror image to themselves - sit in similar chairs, while each person on screen can be heard (and felt) in the same chair, in the space.

This installation has been developed and exhibited in an earlier form.

Other proposed installations that are in development which explore similar ideas, include a series of works involving a self playing piano that re-performs live in the space, the performance of a pianist on this same piano, in the video. Rather than the piano music being played back as a recording, just as the video is, the instrument performs it live, exactly in sync, in the present space.

Detailed information about these installations is available upon request.

Two performance works are slated for development at forumprojects. A staging concept for an orchestral concert and a theatrical staging of a radio play - where the audience hears the performance as a binaural experience in headphones.

The concert work is a staging of Arvo Pärt’s orchestral and choral work - TE DEUM.

The theatrical staging of a radio play in binaural headphones is a version of Samuel Beckett’s radio play WORDS AND MUSIC.

The development stages for these projects have not happened yet, so the images here are a combination of previous work and existing references from key historical works that are similar or relevant.

HEAR! HERE! is an idea for a new public artwork. The work functions both as a visual work - a sculptural mural on a wall or a carousel like circular sculpture in open space - and as an immersive and interactive sound installation. The intention of the work is to engage the community in a surprising way, encouraging a magical path to interact with strangers, and communicate with friends - playfully negotiating the space between the private and the public.

The work is composed of colourful lines of hollow piping stretched out along a wall or as a circular sculpture. These lines intersect and overlap, forming a visual composition. Both ends of each of the four lines, are shaped like ears, inviting people to approach, listen and speak into one of these ends. When another person speaks or listens at the other end of the same line, those two people can communicate with each other intimately, even though they are far apart. Up to eight people, or four pairs of people, can be communicating at once, allowing for surprising interactions, inviting a sense of community that is attractive to both adults and children and is a strong visual installation in a public space. 

At first, this public art installation seems like a colourful version of an older, nostalgic idea of how children can whisper to each other through a pipe. A simple idea that always seems to feel magical. But this version has a few twists. The colour of the work are the colours of the LGBTQ flag. And where it would seem that the two ends of the same coloured pipe would be the channel where two people could communicate, it is soon discovered that the colours do not correspond because the middle junction, where all the pipes twist and overlap, screens how the lines and colours actually connect.

Inspired by the way public transport maps allow everyone to access their destination through colour coded lines, but also invite happy accidents and discoveries, participants are encouraged to use their ears and not their eyes to discover where to talk to each other. On the way discovering new conversations with strangers, allowing the possibility for funny, accidental interactions and new discoveries.

The images here are a combination of early sketches for the concept, as well as existing and related artworks that function as a useful reference for the idea. Visual renders will be available soon.

forumprojects is developing an online platform for specific products and services.

LITTLE BIT OF RED is an online re-cycled repair and alterations clothing label. This online platform invites the user to design their own repairs and creative extensions to their much loved and damaged clothes, from a selection of stitches using red thread. It offers the opportunity to personalise your clothing, making it unique, while repairing and giving a second life to favoured clothes. Applying creativity and originality to recycling.

LITTLE BIT OF RED is coming soon!

forumprojects is currently developing a concept for a TV project that mixes documentary genre with video art, called CONTEMPORARY, to be produced in binaural audio and listened to in headphones.