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Elevator Music in progress

Posted by DCA Theater on September 16, 2009 in Site Unseen

For Site Unseen 2009 artists Annette Barbier and Drew Browning (Unreal-estates) will create a sound installation in the Randolph Street elevator. They’ll use writings, interviews, and documentary sounds of disabled rights activists on one hand and the medical/media community on the other to clarify the differences between these groups’ differing approaches to disability.  Quotes fall into categories such as History, Fiction, Self-Help, Law and Order, referencing the original function of the Cultural Center as the Main Branch of the Chicago Public Library. Spoken words are processed so that, while understandable, they become musical as well, cloaking what may for some be an uncomfortable message in an aesthetically pleasing form.

The duo is chronicling the development of Elevator Music on their blog. Click here to follow their progress.

See their work realized at the 6th annual Site Unseen Monday, November 9.