SHHH SHHH SHHH - Bags, Streets, Windows. A multi-presentational public audio art work, for KunstRaum Goethestrasse - Linz, Austria. 22 - 27th September 2008. Further information can be found on blog here

SHHH SHHH SHHH - Streets. An Action of Art the presenting of a gift of a self powered radio to individuals from Linz, Austria. Action took place September 21st, 22nd, 25th 26th 2008. All photographs by Barbara Landgraf.

The aim of this artwork is to sooth the city and to make contact with individuals who have a unique view of the city as a space. Working with the photographer Barbara Landgraf and workers from organizations familiar with the street life of Linz, I attempted to touch the periphery of society, by making contact with people of the streets.
Traversing Linz’s city, I presented individuals with self powered radios. If individuals were sleeping we left a letter and the radio to discover on waking. The radio was theirs to do as they wish.

Monday 22nd September taken from Blog: Barbara – the photographer – and myself went walking today. The weather is much better. And we found homeless people. The first was a group of six men and two woman. Barbara explained that I wanted to give someone a radio and perhaps why…I can’t speak very good German. They were friendly, drunken, and one funny smelling fellah nearly got the wrong idea.

I gave the radio to the woman with black hair. She read my letter and spoke English with me a little. Then she gave the radio to her friend. He seemed happy and was madly winding away at the crank when we left with lot’s of friendly goodbyes.In the same park I spotted a woman couched under a tree drinking from a can. Her blue eyes rimmed with red. She was friendly but didn't’t want her photograph taken. She told us she was a Shaman. She had no problem for photographs to be taken of the place she’d chosen to sit. She was very pleased with the radio and immediately danced a slow power dance for us as a thanks. Which was interesting. We left that park and wondered form park to park finding no more homeless. Finally we found another group under some trees near a fountain drinking from cans. We were drawn towards one woman with a wonderfully interesting face. She politely declined our offers to talk, or accept a radio and did not want to be photographed. So we respectfully departed. Wondered around but found no more and ended the search.

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