(click image for more details)Handmade, 2007
cymbal
7 - 20 mins
Bob Levene's work investigates sound and how it relates to the action or object that makes it, sound recording technologies and wider communication methods, such as maps, and the culture, languages and rules around them. The work often possesses an underlying humour with an emphasis on play, chance and experimentation and the contradictions and conflicts that arise when trying to re-present our perceived world through another medium.
For example, 'Handmade' (2002-present) is an ongoing series of cymbals that function both as a cymbal and a recording of a cymbal. Using a vinyl-cutting machine the sound of a cymbal is cut back into the cymbal itself, which can then be played like a conventional record (albeit at the expense of a stylus).
'Hand Drawn Map Collection' (1999-present) is a selection of drawn and framed maps taken from a larger collection, acquired by the artist on occasions when she asking for directions from strangers. They explore the selective nature of mapping, each having their own purpose and with what is contained within them being determined by that purpose. They break the rules of mapping, celebrating human error and embodying the time and place in which they were made.
Paul Stone, 2008
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