Louisiana Contemporary

by Janet Cardiff, Mette Marcus (Editor), Janet Cardiff (Artist)

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have gained international recognition for their audio and video "Walks," in which visitors follow the artist’s directions through a site while listening to a CD walkman. As the walk progresses through real time and space, the participant will hear voices, music, footsteps and other sounds that create a fictional sound track to the journey. Cardiff’s work challenges cinematic conventions and collapses the distinctions between reality, sensation and imagination. This audio CD and 32-page booklet accompany the Cardiff and Bures Miller exhibition mounted by Denmark’s Louisiana Museum, for which the artists created "Louisiana Walk" and at which Cardiff and Miller’s seminal "Berlin Files" from 2003 was shown.

Hardcover

First published September 1, 2006

About the author

Janet Cardiff (born March 15, 1957) is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations; especially a form she calls audio walks. She works in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff and Miller currently live and work in Berlin. Janet Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art world for her audio walks in 1995.