Christine Shank
 
 

Between:

This sound based interactive installation piece focuses on the emotional spaces left behind after the termination of a relationship. Two white chairs are set up facing one another, visually referencing a conversation. Headphones hang attached to the side of the chairs, when the participant sit in each seat they listen to two separate stories one told by a woman and the other by a man. The stories heard in the headphones are private reflective stories expressing regret, isolation, loneliness and the intangibility of intimacy.

The experience of listening to the piece creates a private experience between the participants and the piece as well as isolating the participant in a public space of the gallery. The waiting audience is free to observe the interaction between the two people sitting face to face; the body language, movements and expression of the participants become a physical representation of intimacy and space with respect to relationships.

 

 

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