Questionaire: Summoned Voices

1. With what kind of Intention the real public urban space was chosen as place for the project? Are everybody's accessibility all day or public sphere… an important issue for the project?

Yes, the piece is designed for interaction with a broad public - and not strictly the art-educated elite. The work is designed to create a 'portrait' of the lives, feelings and _expression of the general public - and in particular, their responses with respect to place.

2. Shall the project make a special contribution for a new "better" public space? And what importance in that context has the use of new media?

The work aims to facilitate a sense of collected memory and enable the public to lend something of themselves in the realisation of the artwork. The work *becomes* the society around it through interaction. Because of this the work becomes a public record, a place for reflection and contribution.

3. What problems and special challenge occurred due to realize the project in the public space?

As I have mentioned in an earlier email - the problems with this project have been in finding a willing client. Clients in this part of the world (and I suspect elsewhere) - have only recently moved beyond conceptualising public art in anything other than bronze. Sound-based worksface an uphill battle. They are easily knocked back on a perception they will add to noise pollution and be difficult to maintain. That the work allows people to add *anything* to it, leads me to suspect clients are fearful of expletives or critical comment etc being added to the work. It seems we are not yet