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06. marketPlace
marketPlace, 2009, sound and scent installation, The Market Arcade, Buffalo, N.Y. (in collaboration with Stefani Bardin)
The Market Arcade building in Buffalo, N.Y. was once a part of “The Belly of Buffalo”, know for some of the greatest open markets in the country. As with many cities, the fall of community-based gathering places has left this once vibrant center now nearly abandoned. The sounds and smells from the still-vibrant Jean Talon Market in Montreal were artificially infused back into this forgotten space as a means for reconsidering the role of community interactions in contemporary culture.
Audio speakers transmitted sound recorded from the Jean Talon market into corresponding locations in the Arcade building in Buffalo. The smells of the market were chemically reproduced in collaboration with a perfumer and then dispersed via automated scent diffusers onto their corresponding locations as well. As the visitors move along the passageway they are met with the sounds and smells of an active market, which are immediately betrayed by the desolate space in which they exist— exposing both the illusion and the lack of intimate community experience.
06. marketPlace
marketPlace, 2009, sound and scent installation, The Market Arcade, Buffalo, N.Y. (in collaboration with Stefani Bardin)
The Market Arcade building in Buffalo, N.Y. was once a part of “The Belly of Buffalo”, know for some of the greatest open markets in the country. As with many cities, the fall of community-based gathering places has left this once vibrant center now nearly abandoned. The sounds and smells from the still-vibrant Jean Talon Market in Montreal were artificially infused back into this forgotten space as a means for reconsidering the role of community interactions in contemporary culture.
Audio speakers transmitted sound recorded from the Jean Talon market into corresponding locations in the Arcade building in Buffalo. The smells of the market were chemically reproduced in collaboration with a perfumer and then dispersed via automated scent diffusers onto their corresponding locations as well. As the visitors move along the passageway they are met with the sounds and smells of an active market, which are immediately betrayed by the desolate space in which they exist— exposing both the illusion and the lack of intimate community experience.