a limited edition book will be available soon, with the collection of objects and fragments of the audience visiting during the one-week running period of [cloakroom deposit] (june 2002). Interested, and for more information please contact info@britthatzius.co.uk

 

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The object just given is found amongst others, stored in the second cloakroomspace. With each visitor, the collection of gifts grows, becoming part of a musical sound-mashinery and the workings of worlds 'behind the scenes', a storage and accumulation of bits of people.
curiously hidden behind its turning shadows, covering walls and ceiling, a complex moving soundmashine fills the room with squiking wonders.

old recordplayers take their turns in playing silent tunes long lost, as all mechanisms follow their workings amongst the many filled little plastic bags.

sound mashine made by Fred Labbe and Olly Bown

[Cloakroom Deposits] .>number two: the Ladies cloakroom

more than 260 individual small objects are stored in plastic bags, attached to the coat-hangers. (from almost invisible ear-wax, to a plaster, a corner of a handwritten note, hair, a fish, a chocolate, a cinema ticket, a tissue, a gum, a nut, a pair of ear-plugs, best quality hair grips, flight ticket from lima, a scented towelette, a receipt from Barcelona airport, liverpool Marriott Hotel temporary membership card, empty packet of crisps, matchbox from 439 Cao Xi Road (N), Shanghai China, a flower, a stone, a price label, BBC world service buisiness card, bus ticket, odeon cinema ticket for Pollock screen 2, a crisp, an empty calrity pill case, a whisper, a sniff, a crumb, ...)