we rarely listen

“It's not a soporific soundwash. It's not nostalgic... it will be a dynamic piece which stimulates peoples' imaginations and strikes them, hopefully, in a personal way. Because a lot of the sounds, I hope, will be familiar to people... when you ask people to stop and really listen it then becomes a very creative and engaging activity. We tend to hear everything, but we rarely listen.”  

Chris Watson's new installation at the Millenium Gallery, Sheffield, asks us to deepen our awareness of the moment through paying attention to sound. 

Video: here

with her mouth open

"When the actor is finished with her, he turns to the second girl, who has been watching him with the first. He turns her over so that he can fit himself into her from behind; at the same time, another man (he had been lounging in the chair earlier, naked) pulls her on top of him and enters her from the front. While this is going on, the first girl wipes her eyes and breathes with her mouth open as she watches the girl beside her on the bed. After a while, the second girl cries out in Polish." 

from Offertory, by Amy Hempel (2006)
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