LONDON, ENGLAND.- The South London Gallery presents "William Furlong ~ To Hear Yourself as Others Hear You," on view through January 19, 2003. In this new solo exhibition William Furlong has used primary and incidental sounds from the Audio Arts’ archive to create a chorus of audible incidents, pauses and traces in choreographed sequences for an installation spanning the gallery. The ebb and flow of voices around the gallery creates a constantly shifting acoustic environment, which requires the visitor to move under a taut network of wires and speakers situated just above head height.

 

Alongside this major installation Furlong will be presenting a new commission especially made for the South London Gallery collection and funded by the Contemporary Arts Society. Taking the local area and its inhabitants as a theme, Furlong will be interviewing residents of Camberwell and Peckham, juxtaposing their views and attitudes towards South London.

 

Since 1973 William Furlong has been producing Audio Arts Magazine on cassette, which he describes as, "a primary medium and space for the articulation and dissemination of debate, theory and practice in relation to contemporary art." Over some 30 years Audio Arts has become an unprecedented archive of recordings made with over 300 of the best known contemporary artists, musicians, curators and critics, from Andy Warhol to Tracey Emin, Liam Gillick, Anish Kapoor, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert & George, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Matthew Collings to Yoko Ono.