fcct-c free concert for a city trash can - sabotage of 100 city trash cans. dublin, ireland | ®2004 |
This project was installed in Dublin on the occasion of a public project organized by U.S. based curator S.Sakash and presented as a part of the larger international event held in the Irish capital that celebrated the “100 Anniversary of Bloomsday”, from the James Joyce’s Ulysses Festival. fcct-c consisted in “gently sabotaging” 100 public trash-cans by using radio-sound. In practice I would attach to the inside of each of these trash-cans a small FM radio transmitter. (Cheap plastic FM radios were used). The radio would be tuned into a number of local FM radio Stations which broadcasted classical music, news-reports and James Joyce-related debates. (In alternative, also local pirate punk-rock radios were broadcasted). Conceived and produced as a time-related work (lasting throughout the duration of the battery life), this project is part of a series of public interventions called: “Gestures of giving”. Basically these works(interventions) are meant to function as “subtly disorienting injections” into a number of basic people’s daily rituals and activities. In the specif fcctc aims at creating an unexpected free sound surprise for the citizens of a specific public area, (and perhaps a pleasant one as well?). I first tested this work on the Eurostar Train connecting Milano to Roma, (Italy) in 2002. The 22 Radio FM transmitters were simply thrown into the trash-cans that are to be found alongside the train corridors. The project in Dublin was generously supported by the Ambassade van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, in Ireland.