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Whispering Galleries:
Documenting Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse's Interactive Poetry Project

Site Projects presents: Whispering Galleries, by Amaranth Borsuk + Brad Bouse

Site Projects 2014 Public Art Commission - Whispering Galleries - is an interactive, digital artwork by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse. Based on the diaries of an anonymous New Haven county shopkeeper from the 1850s, the work is experienced on a computer screen through a LEAP motion controller.

This short documentary commissioned by Site Projects and created by Ryan O'Donnell gives an overview of the artwork as told by the artists and shows its opening in the New Haven Free Public Library. The work was on view in all five branches of NHFPL (April 26 - Aug 2014); City Hall New Haven (Sept 2 -12, 2014) and The Institute Library (Sept 4 - Nov 2014).

The work is presented in partnership with the New Haven Free Public Library and is a program of CT at Work - a yearlong conversation about the past, present and future of work life in Connecticut created by CT Humanities in partnership with NHFPL and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.

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Artist's Statement
"A work of interactive poetry, Whispering Galleries is inspired by a set of anonymous 1858-1859 diaries kept by a New Haven County shop clerk. Visitors to the New Haven Free Public Library, where Whispering Galleries will be on exhibit starting April 26, 2014, are invited to read and engage with the words of this figure, using their hands to capture the echoes of his voice through a virtual whispering gallery: a screen that allows us to simultaneously look into the past and see the present."

- From project website