Call Of The Wild September 2001

The old men from the area, sat around the fire pit telling stories every summer when the fish was rising. All the locals was around, us kids was listening to the stories with open ears. These stories left a mark on our early life. Later they build a hydroelectric power plant in that river and I wondered who was telling stories now?
I found this Campfire site from the shore of my childhood river and picked it up. Cleaned it and got it chromed in an industrial process, where they used chromesteam in a vacumchamber. I then collected sound from the same river, both over- and underwater.

I showed the chromed campfire with speakers above, the sound was that from the river, run on a live feed of Benchmark Indexes from different stock exchanges. Above water sounds when the stocks are rising, underwater sounds when its falling, respectively in rising and falling frequencies.

Exhibitions