raft

'in the listeners ears the discourse of such places is registered as a polyphonic babble, a co-existence of voices, accents and intonations signifying nothing. when occasionally communication is attempted...that serves to get the message across without involving any exchange.'

artists ruark lewis and paul carter within there installation 'raft' attempt to represent the seperation and differentiation that language barriers create. by filling a room with a mounted discourse of languages almost creates a noise of 'nothingness' as it produces nothing of sense in terms of the exchange through communication. like these two artists have tryed to represent through their work when an array of several communications of differentiated origins commence and co-exist at one given time or in one particular place it literally causes communication with no exchange due to the barrier created therefore the communication has no exchange or direction essentially causing it therefore to be disconnected despite the intention for it to initiate connection.