Tremor

    

Installation, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina. 1989

Tremor was an installation with three audio tapes. Two reading tables were positioned in front of 2 thirty-foot-long houses. On the three walls surrounding the reading tables, three slide projectors project test written by a woman about her history of experiences of violence within her home. The first house is constructed of broken domestic furniture that had once been witnesses or weapons within a violent domestic situation. The second house has no exterior shell but the interior is sealed and painted to resemble moist flesh. In each house, the audience walks to the end of the house where 2 speakers positioned as if they were vocal chords in the back of the throat played the audio tapes. The three audio tapes are layered words that attempt in various ways to articulate the subject’s desire to describe her experience. She eventually forces language to reveal the complexity of her history.

Curator- Heln Marzolf

Vocals on Audio – Michelle Kramer, Sara Rogers, Beth Gibson, and Patti Shaw.

Audio Engineer – Andy Dowden – Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax.

This work was dedicated to all those working to end violence against women