Faraday's Garden

Faraday's Garden, 1990-99
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Faraday's Garden, 1990-99
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Faraday's Garden, 1990-99
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Faraday's Garden, 1990-99
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In Faraday's Garden, participants walk through a landscape of
innumerable household and office appliances, power tools, projectors, radios, phonographs, and various other personal comfort devices (collected from thrift stores and flea markets). The machines wait silently, ready to be activated at any moment by the footfalls of the public. When stepped upon, switch matting triggers the various machines and appliances, creating a kind of force field of noise and activity around each visitor. As the number of participants increases, the general level of cacophony rises, creating a wildly complex symphony of machines, sounds and projections. Interaction ranges from a sense of effortless control to the disturbing feeling that the machines are somehow alive, responding to your presence.

(Perry Hoberman)