"Visitor Centre" by Graham Dunning

The Rea Garden is a derelict industrial site which at one time had been a warehouse for Philips Records. As such, amongst the soil were broken shards of shellac records once stored there. During the residency I conducted a pseudo-archaeological investigation into the site to excavate these fragments (and anything else I found). I also spent the time investigating the area and experimenting with solar powered amplification, field recordings and feedback.

For Visitor Centre I presented the whole site as an installation including: the various open excavations from my dig; a shed-as-museum with a display case containing a record reconstituted from found fragments, and other objects I’d unearthed; A monolith topped with a speaker converted to work as a microphone; and a second shed containing three speakers relaying sounds from the monolith and elsewhere on the site, amplified by solar power. Visitors also had the option to listen to the Audio Guide composition on headphones as they explored the site.

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