Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Thomas Morrill

Tom Morrill graduated from RISD in 2008 with a BFA from the Painting Department. He is 22 years old.


Hang ‘Em Up Roadie
1 Watt Radio Transmitter tuned to FM station, cassette tapes, tape deck, shelves, table with table cloth, door, cinder blocks, PVC and 1 Large Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee 7/8 drank.
128x48x78 in.
2008






The radio station consists of a self-built transmitter with a 3/4-mile
range as well as over 500 recorded cassette tapes organized by a complicated arrangement based on the geographic origins of the tapes. For example, an album from a particular band is placed in the city/state/country in which the group or artist was born, speeches are place where they were recorded, animals, people and places where they live, and so on. (Side one of tapes with two different origins is the deciding factor) the only rule beyond that is that no tape is miscellaneous. The tapes include movies dubbed from television, the theater and DVD, books on tape, found tapes, recorded sporting events, television shows, animal sounds, books read into the recorder, documentaries, music, lectures, interviews ect. The shelves are arranged by a loose world geography. A shelf for a place does not exist until there is a least one tape to fill it. Adhesive labels demarcate the location of each shelf.


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