Kunstmuseum Celle
Schlossplatz 7
29221 Celle
Germany
To Be in the Doghouse (2006)
doghouse, mobile phone with integrated MP3 player, loudspeaker, CBS Interview with Bill Clinton (June 2004)
74 x 72 x 105 cm
Photo: Marc Stantien
»I think I did something for the worst possible reason - just because I could.«
A doghouse acts as a resonator for Bill Clinton‘s voice. »I think I did something for the worst possible reason - just because I could. I think that that‘s the most - just about the most morally indefensible reason that anybody could have for doing anything; when you do something just because you could. I thought about it a lot.« These words are repeated over and over using two loudspeakers inside the doghouse thus intensifying both meaning and melody. The additional deliberate displacements of both channels constantly create new spaces and rhythmic structures. This produces tension between the musical quality of language and the semantics of language.
