Art Installations

Tip tap tip tap. Is that the sound of dripping or is it someone in a cell tapping a code on the wall? Now there are many more tapping sounds. Far and near. Loud and soft. Now someone is banging on a bed, now a cupboard. Now the hall is filled with a cacophony of beats, working their way back and forth, a pandemonium of percussion.

Using the existing elements in the prison cells, Cardiff and Miller will produce a percussive site work that is rhythmic and musical at some points and at other times pure sound as if a multitude of people or ghosts have inhabited the hall.

This project has been supported by a grant from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, a program funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, and administered by The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. This project also supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and the Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

Installation Photographs - click on any image for an enlargement and caption. All photos by Sean Kelley