This is my contribution to "B sides and Rarities" published by
LOKAAL 01, BREDA, THE NETHERLANDS
Imagine the Sound
Although there are some ideas that I can talk about in relation to your project, I would like to qualify them first and set them in the context of my working process.
I could not really say that there are unrealised or impossible projects as such within my work, largely because of my working methods. The whole of my work is interconnected, constantly fluid and flexible without any specifically defined or preconceived outcomes. Areas or groups of work which don't necessarily have a specific purpose will usually, at some point, have an interesting relationship to something else and so, ideas or bits of work that have (sometimes for years) appeared irrelevant, can become important and vice versa.
Having said this, and at the risk of contradicting myself a little, there is an idea that I have been working on recently which I think does fall into the area that you are interested in documenting. I have been making sound recordings in two types of place:
(1) places that are significant in the visual arts, where practically the only kind of recording that is not made is sound;
(2) galleries and museums, some of which fall into the above category, but others that don't allow photography (even making a sound recording in these places seems to disturb the gallery attendants and they don't know how to react).
These ideas don't have definite forms of presentation or resolution at the moment, and also fall into the area of being elusive (or even impossible) in terms of visual art. They refer to it but don't show it, yet when listening to the recordings, it is possible to understand, locate and imagine where they were made.
In fact, I am not even sure whether these ideas will ever resolve in a concrete sense, or if I even want them to, because sometimes the proposal of an idea can be more elegant and interesting as an end in itself.
Frederick Bell November 2009
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