GARY HILL, Resounding Arches/Archi Risonanti, 2005.
Site-specific installation with multiple projections and sound, for
the Coliseum and Temple of Venus and Rome, Rome, Italy
PHOTO CREDIT: Claudio Abate
COURTESY DONALD YOUNG GALLERY, CHICAGO

The figures enacting Resounding Arches/Archi Risonanti announce their appearance in a single note that comes to pervade the Coliseum's spaces. They step forward - playing the sound - variously within the arches of the ruin.

Important here is the disturbance of the site in a sound resonant with the memory of a spectacle-to-come, while the figures' emergence is ephemeral, dispersed and elusive.

These are not 'realistic' portrayals, but presences of animation and imagination. Quite different from the mirroring of Viewer or Standing Apart. Here, time is shaped by the unfurling of the sound, which is the unfurling of the image of the figure, which defers to a relationship to site based on imagined memories.

Here, in the event, sound ghosts the ruined space, but what remains is the image of the figure's re-animation of its site.

For discussion: disturbance of site/space, sound, tuning.

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