FLOOR PLAN/NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

A holocaust memorial installation by Alvin Curran in collaboration with Melissa Gould based on a full size illuminated floor plan of a former Berlin synagogue, rendered in fluorescent light installed at ground level (see photo). From a multiple loudspeaker installation "placed under the earth" in a surrounding trench a continuous mix of millions of singing human voices are heard coming out from underground. Commissioned by the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 1991 and included in the exhibition "Light Construction," Museum of Modern Art, New York 1996. Listen to an excerpt.


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