First shown in London at the group show CLUB 21: Remaking the Scene, One Marylebone, exhibition curated by Oxana Maleeva / Art Apart during (and right next to) Frieze Art Fair 2010. Revised for inclusion in the group show I MISS MY ENEMIES, a collateral event of the Venice Biennale 2011. Also featured at the booth of Gallery on the Move at the Miart fair in Milan, 2013.
The steel urn contains little beads that rattle when a transducer reinjects the recorded sound of the same urn being tapped with the fingers or rubbed with a tuning fork. The fact that the sounds come from the urn’s natural frequency makes a feedback effect that moves the beads. A voice is morphed into the sound pronouncing verbs that cycle randomly and seem almost never to repeat. The first verb the visitor understands is the Oracle’s answer to his/her question.
