DUMPLINKS

An interactive sound based environment
Commissioned by Watermans

Every year the rubbish mountain grows. Every day, perfectly useable items are being thrown away, unnecessarily replaced by more fashionable successors. Finding beauty where nobody cares to look and listen, Iris Garrelfs has created an interactive 4-channel sound based environment around recycling issues, involving a found, downtrodden, but very colourful piece of plastic, and wires.

Tread around and explore the sonic equivalent of a recycling plant and its constituents. Surrounded by Iris Garrelfs' multi-channel experience, rubbish takes on a new lease of life, magically transmuted. Created from sounds and sights recorded and filmed in Brentford’s waste and recycling business community.

The opening of DUMPLINKS was part of Sprawl’s SONIC RECYCLER on 7th June featuring live music from Scanner, Simon Fisher Turner, Tennis and Ticklish, DJs from XFM, Radio 3 and Resonance FM plus short films and more. A shortened film version has since been presented atAlso presented as part of Arborescence Festival, Marseille, September 04 and as part Circle of Sound, London, May 05.

The work has been commissioned by Watermans www.watermans.org.uk