Shiver

      

Installation, Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jan. 1995

Shiver was an installation with 2 audio tapes and motorized furniture. The furniture was scattered on a newspaper-covered floor around a 2 story, boarded-up apartment building from which it had been thrown. The door was now locked. The building appeared to be made of brick held together precariously by a mortar of straw. The furniture shivered and shook while a sound tape from two large speakers tipped on their sides shouted at the viewer to get out. Above the furniture, there was a table, two chairs, a suitcase, and two speakers suspended from the ceiling. An audio piece was moving from speaker to speaker in a constant dialogue between a voice frozen and weary and a voice warm and optimistic from constant unceasing walking. A slide projection of a woman walking rotated continuously around the walls of the gallery in the upper half of the walls.

Technical Assistance- Grant Webber

Vocalists – Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Kathleen Yearwood