Nineteen young people from the London boroughs of Westminster and Ealing have met and talked with two elderly "foundling pupils", as the abandoned children were called, and have made sound installations based on these conversations.
The development of this mathematical model (which is in good agreement with experimental data) enables to estimate design parameters to dimension pilot and industrial scale installations based on this process.
The result is "Diptych, Window-Wallpiece" a rather brain-teasing, site-specific installation based on the juxtaposition of words.
Pierre Huyghe represents France with "The Third Memory" (2000), a two-channel video installation based on the bank robbery that inspired Sidney Lumet's 1975 movie, "Dog Day Afternoon".
The multimedia artist John Walter addressed the disappearing act by mounting the exhibit Alien Sex Club, "a large-scale installation based on the shapes of cruise mazes, found in sex clubs and gay saunas", during 2015 Pride in London.
He said he had long been thinking of an installation based on the fluidity of time and that he was attracted by the narrative qualities of the Sichuan tableau, a version of which he saw as a youth.
Last year the festival, in its first season, presented an installation based on the work: an electronic deconstruction that placed listeners inside a circle of 40 speakers, each delivering mainly the sound of a single voice.
I am tempted to digress into the dialectical tension between the terms "anime" and "inanimate"—right next to the Simmons show is an installation based on the work of Gilles Deleuze, the French metaphysician, that plays with the same idea but I fear that this is T.M.I.
