D E P A R T U R E S / A R R I V A L S
sound installation 1998
 
Description:
1. Loudspeakers spread around the halls of the railway station.
2. Sound: announcing voice:
A. Travellers to Aback, Abandonment, Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abduction, 
Aberrance, Aberration, Abeyance, Abhorrence, Abidance, Ability, Abiritation, Abjection, Abjuration, Ablution. Abnegation, Abnormity, ...Astonishment please move to Platform A and wait. Everything is under control. 
B. For those waiting for Babble, Babel, Babyishness, Backing, Background,
... Brutality, Brutism - there is no information available about these destinations.
C. On Platform C Cabal, Call, Callousness, Calmness, Candour, Canon, Custom...  there is a special composition, departing soon.
...And so on and so on Following announcements from A-Z in alphabetical order. 

Approaching the issue of how the items were to be put into order, I chose the order of the custom dictionary, which is closest to the state of knowledge and cognition in contemporary society.

Concept:
This is a para-station. Simulation of the usual procedure of announcement at every railway station of arriving and departing vehicles. A parallel announcement. But the names (destinations) marking geographical territories (the routes) are replaced by words - human created, abstract categories constructing human values, usually used as guiding marks in life. This is a control room for human lives (the “institution”, the “law”, the “power”).
Because there is always someone else who claims to know the true and 
wants us to believe in his theories, methods, models, just for our “better existence”. 
The “institution” always projects human-created values onto the things for our better 
understanding of the world, but in fact those are only fictions which prevent us from the direct contact with reality. Those are instruments for social control and manipulation over others.


Contents:
amplifier, 4 loudspeakers,2 cd players, 4 chanels


Presented at BREAK '21, 1998, Ljubljana, Si

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