Folly Gallery, Lancaster

Adinda van ‘t Klooster is a new media and installation artist, currently undertaking the Gloucester Cathedral Residency in the South West of England.

She completed her MA in Electronic Imaging at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2000. Her practise combines interactive media with sculptural objects, light, video, sound and animation. Her work is both emotive and political and has recently been inspired by medical imaging techniques and concerned itself with the influence of new technologies on our bodies and our perception of the body.

The proposal

The proposal to create non-gallery interventions thus fitted in well with the way she is developing her work. Initially she proposed to create non-gallery based interventions in peoples homes, creating sound portraits by placing webcams in peoples homes and using MAX to translate this into musical soundscapes.

The outputs

As Adinda developed her skills with the software and her ideas, she reconsidered her proposal. She created a series of sound based interventions in public spaces such as the Lancaster Castle and the train station where she gave a live sound performance. Passengers at the station would come across her sampled train sounds by surprise. Their aural environment was subtly changed as the laptop sounds, which verged between noise and music, mixed in with the daily soundscape. As the performer remained more or less invisible, peoples’ aural awareness was put to the test.