Conversation (2009-)

25 conversations with artists recorded in Cape Town with a
collection of artefacts from the artists visited.

Total duration of 13,3hrs

Conversation is a collaboration that prompts an open-ended dialogue between two artists, Bianca Baldi and whichever artist she meets. This process aims to gain insight into the person and their artistic practice/process. The conversations are captured using an audio recording the tracks are then lightly edited and played in series on a loop.In a darkened space the viewer/listener will access snippets of the whole and both bare witness and become part of the conversation by “sitting in” on the awkwardness of the recorded voice in the pseudo-confessional space.

Adding to the collection of audio as Conversations, Baldi has gathered ‘artifacts’ of the artist’s process. These objects are collected and displayed as anthropological displays in vitrines with descriptive labels. Rather that art objects these artifacts are displayed as relics of the art making.