Feedback Room
Installation and Audio play
Exhibition during a Residency at the Irish Museum of Art, 2010
The audio play Feedback Room was staged in the Process Room on the hour every hour during regular opening hours at IMMA
Voices: Gina Moxley and Marty Rea
Technical support: David Lacey
Set: Joe Stanley, IMMA
The play Feedback Room is staged as an audio play in a built theatre set.
It is written as a conversation between two people who may or may not have spent the night together. Each character suggests a memory to the other of previous events, their conversation unravels into an argument and memories of events become confused and unreal.
The work is inspired by the television play Nacht und Träume (Night and Dreams) written and directed by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English for Süddeutscher Rundfunk and recorded for Television in October 1982.
The word ‘feedback’ describes a communicative situation as well as a technical event. Feedback as sound or image changes the former situation: giving feedback as assurance or critique, enables the person getting it to reassess a position or point of view. Feeding back sound or an image through a microphone or a camera is instant, changing the amplified sound or distorting the filmed image.
SV12 Studio Voltaire Members Show 2012
