Govett-Brewster’s latest Open Window project

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April 6 2009

Govett-Brewster’s latest Open Window project unveiled

This month the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s newest Open window project evokes a spiritual presence.

For five weeks every half an hour recordings of church bells will chime from the window of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

The sound installation replays chimes of anonymous church bells taken from free online sound libraries onto the street over the 24 hour period of the day while the interior space remains empty.

The creator of this work is Auckland-based artist Boris Dornbusch.

Dornbusch's work explores events that reveal the role of the individual in group constellations and our construction as citizens. His work is informed by certain fictions between perceptions and apprehensions of how we understand our individual involvements; the impositions of popular culture, the juggling of references and the organisation of social interconnectivity.

Open window is the site of a series of contemporary art projects featuring a range of emerging artists offering art that engages with the commercial nature of the shop-front window and the attributes particular to window gazing.

Dornbusch's work IDEO MOTOR will be exhibited at the Govett-Brewster until 10 May 2009.

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