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Anabelle lacroix | Listeners are creators
Cara-Ann Simpson’s Geo Sound Helmets are a bit like sea snails, their shell is a camouflage strategy for survival. Simpson’s helmets can be useful to protect our heads, but they also adapt to our emotional response. Both are much more than what they look like. Simpson’s Geo Sound Helmets are rock looking, interactive, immersive sound environments. Each hang from the gallery walls, ceiling or set on the floor. By inserting your head in the dark void of the helmet you would hear…
Kyle Jenkins | the act of things that aren’t there
The work of Cara-Ann Simpson is about constructing environments where the ephemeral nature of experience is explored. This exploration forms a seminal material within the reading of the work ‘Noise Cancellation: disrupting audio perception’ as this installation questions the relationship between public and private space as an architectural metaphor for spatial collage. This is done by creating objects that have a physical and sonic construction.