Two Ways How To Say Three (sound, photography and video installation, 2003)

The busy crossroad was captured in three different medias- sound, photo and video. Sound part consists of:

a) Inner Space - 20 seconds long sound installed in three separate headphones (each of the sounds is merged with a different sine wave- low, middle and high).

b) Outer Space - an hour long ambient-like sound made from the abovementioned sine waves and played from two hidden loudspeakers.

The sound from the loudspeakers is heard when the viewer enters the installation space and sound from the headphones is heard when the viewer moves close to the wall where video is projected and puts the headphones on. The video projection is a slowed down and looped video footage of the same crossroad, it works in connection with the sound of the Outer Space of the installation.

On the wall, in front of the headphones, there are hanging three photos in which the image of the crossroad is covered with pink color in the way that only the small stripe of the original image is visible. The stripes are located in the bottom, middle and top of the photos. The photo with the stripe on the bottom is hanging in front of the headphone with the low sine wave sound, photo with the stripe in the middle is hanging in front of the headphone with the middle sine wave and photo with the stripe on the top is hanging in front of the headphone with the high sine wave. That represents the Inner Space of the installation.

Text by Arturas Bumsteinas for exhibition “Parallel Progressions 3: etc.” in Vilnius' Contemporary Art Centre, 200