“room overlay/accumulation”
Geoff Robinson
29 May → 4 July 2015

Geoff Robinson & Helen Grogan, room overlay/5 weeks /thursdays 6-7pm/accumulation & THREE ADJOINING SPACES WITH MANIFOLD EDGES, 2015, installation shot. Photo Credit: Christo Crocker

room overlay/accumulation takes sound recordings made within indoor public sites in Melbourne and sequentially overlays them onto Gallery one, the Front and Back Space of West Space over the duration of the exhibition. The recordings are performed in collaboration with musicians.

Using spatial markers (coloured wooden blocks), Geoff Robinson traces and highlights the architecture of the sites. The placement and contact/sounding of the spatial markers emphasise its form and material texture whilst each musician uses their instrument to sound out the acoustics of the room. The overlay onto West Space consists of the playback of the recordings of each site and the re-iterating of the collaborative performance of marking and sounding out the gallery.

As the sound recordings are added to the gallery over 5 weeks, the spatial markers will also accumulate creating a spatial diagram of the performances in relation to the architecture of West Space.

Performers: Aviva Endean, Alexander Garsden, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Michael McNab, Benjamin Woods

Geoff Robinson