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the megaphone project

Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey2007–2018

Singapore Art Museum

Singapore Art Museum
Singapore, Singapore

"the megaphone project" is an interactive installation that encourages discovery and participation in a game of sound and physical play.

Fourteen striking red megaphones of various shapes and sizes recreate the miracle of wireless tin can telephones. The joyful manipulations of voices from the local community are naturally reinforced through simple acoustics, with varying time delays, allowing voices to mysteriously and ambiguously return. The audience creates a lively environment of play and enjoyment that is all their own invention.

From time to time, the sounds from the megaphones combine to form a chorus that blends its voices and effects into a cohesive sonic whole. The art, and the performance, is thus co-created by the passers-by.

The artists’ aesthetic is shaped by ideas of a democratic and decentralised mode of cultural production, one that invites audience members who encounter the work to express themselves in gesture and voice.

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  • Title: the megaphone project
  • Creator: Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey
  • Date Created: 2007–2018
  • Physical Dimensions: Dimensions variable
  • Provenance: Collection of the Artists, Singapore Art Museum commission
  • Medium: Site-specific installation with sound, steel, wood and electronics, interactive and pre-recorded sounds
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