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Gallery - Infundibula
In the autumn Of 2001, Fleur Schell went to the Alberta College of Art
and Design as an artist in residence
INFUNDIBULAR 2002
The work brings together Schell's interest in sound, her response to the gallery as a container for sound and her desire to provoke radical interaction with gallery visitors. She has dismantled numerous harmonicas, removing their reeds and embedding them in a variety of hand wrought porcelain funnels. She will construct, essentially, a harmonica the length of the gallery from individually cast and manipulated containers, a variety of hoses, sound altering funnels and a complex array of mechanisms to drive air through the reeds. If all are played at once, the resulting cacophony should be astonishing, but playing will require cooperation and interaction between individuals. The gallery audience will be invited to extend that unbroken chain themselves, using their own bodies as conduits of a remarkable experience.
Amy Gogarty
The work brings together Schell's interest in sound, her response to the gallery as a container for sound and her desire to provoke radical interaction with gallery visitors. She has dismantled numerous harmonicas, removing their reeds and embedding them in a variety of hand wrought porcelain funnels. She will construct, essentially, a harmonica the length of the gallery from individually cast and manipulated containers, a variety of hoses, sound altering funnels and a complex array of mechanisms to drive air through the reeds. If all are played at once, the resulting cacophony should be astonishing, but playing will require cooperation and interaction between individuals. The gallery audience will be invited to extend that unbroken chain themselves, using their own bodies as conduits of a remarkable experience.
Amy Gogarty