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Sound is proposed here as both a documentary and creative act, alternative from, or analogous to the photograph, one that spatially and temporally displaces the act of display. It is, however, testing another function or possibility, which is to show how an object might ‘experience’ the processes of display, an inversion of the documentary act to that of 'siding' with the subject represented. 

These are, in some cases, shortened versions of longer soundworks.

▶ Monkey Business No. 29 (Warhol, Lichtenstein, 1972). 2009 
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▶ Monkey Business No. 32 (Sigmund Freud). 2009
CD player, amplifier, two speakers, infinitely looped ambient sound recording, (interior of the right-hand drawer of Sigmund Freud’s desk, recorded in his study, the Freud Museum, Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London, June 2009), gallery information label, perspex. 
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▶ Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The Musical Instrument Gallery. The 'Messiah' Stradivarius.
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▶ Fluntern Cemetery, Zürich: The original site of James Joyce's grave. 
(I am grateful to Ursula Zeller and Dr. Fritz Senn of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation for their assistance.)
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▶ The British Museum, London: Room 18, Metopes, Pediments and Frieze from the Parthenon, Athens (The Elgin Marbles)  
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▶ Stedelijk CS Museum, Amsterdam: Vitrine Interior
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▶ Tate Modern, London: Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth (The Tate 'crack')
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▶ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Room 3 (European Modernism): Piet Mondrian, Composition With Double Line and Yellow, 1932.
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