The Pharmacy
bi-channel sound work
in former building of Faculty of Pharmacy
of Wrocław University
2014
curator: Daniel Brożek
commisioned by The City Soundscape Library
12. Survival Art Reviev
—left channel:
a soundscape of the empty former building of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Wrocław Medical University, ul. Grodzka 9, Wrocław
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—right channel:
a soundscape of the empty new building of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Wrocław Medical University, ul. Borowska 211, Wrocław
Pharmacy is a selection of field recordings carried out in June 2014 in the former and the current buildings of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Wrocław University. The move to the new seat took a long time and has only recently finished.
The work was triggered by the need to question the tendency to think in dual terms, also with reference to the city fabric. The bi-channel registration of sonic emptiness and fullness of the buildings emphasises the ambiguity of what death and vitality are.
