071 Urban Songline (A Diamond Dusting)

<p>A project in which diamond dust is scattered over the gallery floors beneath the diamond vault ceilings of the architectural museum in Oslo, a former bank.</p> <p>The tiny diamonds will be spread by visitors, sticking to their soles, dispersing the dust throughout the building, streets and town, investigating ideas of economic inequality, de-luxuriation and commodification of capital. A musical composition will be composed which will appear as a hummed performance by the curators. It is a scattered score that needs to be assembled by the audience, consciously or sub-consciously. The resulting music will be installed in the spaces where the diamond dust is located on an ambient speaker-system.</p> <p>This performance and sound-installation are part of the project Urban Songlines in which public spaces are translated into music discussing notions of inclusion, belonging and becoming. Urban Songlines are inspired by the method of singing the shape of their landscape in order to map, maintain and spiritual embody public spaces by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia.</p> <p>In this 71st iteration of the project. I am specifically interested in the tension between the institutionalized architectural segments of the diamond vaults above us, representing the skies / heavens & the diamond dust on the floor that gets mixed up with common dirt, walked into the streets, forgotten, de-valued and neutralized as a luxury good. The music is the ethereal layer in between the ceiling and the ground that juxtaposes the two.</p>