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Six strings with 30 000 tiny glass beads are strung from wall to
wall in a room located in the center of the museum. The 11 meter
long strings hang above the heads of the visitors and are each connected
to a microphone installed somewhere in the museum. The microphones
transmit sounds and motions back to the strings and make them vibrate,
thus making the piece play the silent composition of the museum.
A few microphones are placed in the room and allow visitors to discover
and play the art work.
Using the German author Herman Hesse's famous novel as an inspiration
Norberg questions the roll of The Museum in society. Is
it an empty place were only the cultural elite gather? Or is the
Museum cultural safe-keeper of treasures hidden in the collections
that we are not able to appreciate in today's "consume and
dispose" culture?
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