Tatiana Trouvé & grace hall :
You Are Here & obsidian cloud
This first time collaboration between sculptor and sound artist takes the form of a poetic and fictional map and an installation created out of sound. At the tourist office, a printed map guides visitors to some lesser-known aspects of the region and on an uncanny and disorientating experience for the senses. It takes the form of a guide with five texts relating to five different places. Here, the secret aspects of the region are presented as stations in the exploration of the unknown (Tatiana Trouvé, You Are Here, 2017).
One of these five experiences takes place at the public swimming pool. The map guides the visitors to this destination and the pool functions as a gateway to this unknown world. Beneath the waters of the public swimming pool the familiar intonations of language are interrupted by the swimmers’ breath to create a fragmented poetry of inhalation and exhalation (Grace Hall, Obsidian Cloud, 2017). Underwater we transition momentarily into this secret world. However, it is a world we can only inhabit for the space of a breath.
You Are Here and Obsidian Cloud work synergistically, echoing one another, to create the experience of otherworldly tourism.