Internship Research Project: TWIFSY at the T&G
Sound centred investigation of a Public Art Installation, utilising field recordings, site documentation and interventions.
In 2024 I participated in an internship with Experimenta, focused on TWIFSY, the work of the artist Peter Thiedeke. This work was presented by Experimenta in partnership with the T&G building, for Melbourne City Council’s Now or Never festival, 2024. It was installed in the Atrium of the T&G building in Collins St Melbourne.
From August to October 2024, I was granted access to the privately owned space to observe the artist and technicians during installation processes. I was also able to take field recordings for research, had opportunities to speak to T&G employees and generally gain extensive practical knowledge on the requirements of presenting public art works.
The T&G and TWIFSY
In response to TWIFSY and the T&G Atrium space, I produced a four part video work. Utilising field recordings and visual documentation, it becomes a form of chronicling time spent there.
The Atrium, not only draws light into the centre of the T&G, it also draws in sound. The Atrium’s resonance blends and shapes the sounds within, with those, without. It is the tonal centre of the building. The cafe, the thoroughfare, public passing through during open hours, the business meetings, the private moments all leave sound traces that inform a soundscape unique to the Atrium. Somewhere within the Atrium’s void, I imagine the office in the late 1930’s where my grandmother worked as a stenographer, and later as a telephonist. The name of the building is the same.
