Pandemonium
  • book with audio CD
  • paper over boards issued without dust-jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 22 x 14.5 cm.
  • 48 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780964922129

Pandemonium

[Hardcover Edition]

Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller, Julie Courtney, Sean Kelley, Richard Torchia

Pandemonium

description

Catalogue of installation "Pandemonium" by sound artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, played at the Eastern State Penitentiary. "[The artists] produced a percussive site-specific work that was rhythmic and musical at some points and at other times pure sound, as if made by the multitude of ghosts inhabiting the cells. Eastern State Penitentiary was the world's first true 'penitentiary,' designed to inspire profound regret--or penitence--in the hearts of criminals. Its influential design featured cell blocks extending like the spokes of a wheel so that each inmate lived in solitary confinement in a vaulted skylit cell. The artists chose Cell Block Seven, an enormous, cathedral-like, two-story wing completed in 1836 for their piece. It had never before been open to the public." -- publisher's statement. Includes essays by Julie Courtney, Richard Torchia, and Sean Kelley. Color and b & w photographs. Includes audio CD.

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