Bram Vreven (b. 1973, Belgium)
untitled, 1999

Fully functional sound installation where loudspeakers seem to be “unpacked” from the crate they came in. This is yet another example of interesting “packaging” of a sound piece where packaging itself adds to meaning generation.

This also reminds me of a project I made in my very early days of art school – a sculptural installation that I presented packed down in the crate on a lift truck. The audience could get some view of the piece by looking through gaps in the “poorly taped” cardboard of the casing – if they recognised my installation as an artwork at all, and not as a new delivery to the workshop, that is. It is interesting to consider what packaging adds to the meaning of the packaged, how it suggests a liminal state between points of departure and delivery, a temporarily suspended identity of its contents, for the time being being just a parcel in transit…