Parked

Parked is a place-responsive audio installation created collaboratively with Zak Miller-Ada to playfully activate urban spaces (parking lots) in ways akin to tailgate parties of the artists’ rural youth. Using sound to articulate space, this interactive installation calls to question our relationships to urban spaces and how we gather and interact within them. The artists collaboratively scored 5 audio compositions, each made up of 5 tracks, which were then recorded onto separate cassette tapes to be played simultaneously out 5 car stereos parked in and around the space. A simulated fire, chairs and blankets set the scene and people are invited to come be in the space together. The gathering’s soundtrack shifts and transforms in response to the public manipulating the volume and opening/closing the doors and windows of the different vehicles; live-mixing the soundscape in real time and highlighting the emergent magic created by the interplay of structure and chance.

Parked was created for Nocturne Art at Night 2010 and installed downtown Kjipuktuk/Halifax in a parking lot behind the Halifax Memorial Library.