Whispers in the Basement

2023

2023, audio running time: 5:03, Iphone 10, string, tape, drywall











image on the left: zoom audio recorder placed in the basement near the door to the gym; Image on the right: Planet Fitness’ promotion accessories in the basement’s tunnel (accessed through the door right to the door in the first image). Photo taken by me.






Drawing of the basement’s energy field

Whispers in the Basement is a site-specific sound installation. The Parsons building on 13th street shares a basement with Planet Fitness. Coming from the locked door to the gym’s subfloor, sounds of treadmills and upbeat music can be heard in the underground space of the institution. Pre-recorded sounds from the basement is played on a phone. The phone is inserted into the drywall of my studio at Parsons through an ominous cut.