Space Without Room, 2008
Eight-channel sound installation
approximately 400 x 500 x 250 cm


Space Without Room is a dynamic eight-channel sound installation by Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, guest artist at the Department of New Media at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. It is a sonic fiction that, through its richly textured soundscape, offers the viewer the chance to experience an evaded past. Comprised of an aural panorama, which fills the entirety of the space, and an old car, the work's minimal material aims to couple architectural sound and storytelling. This dynamic sound-installation is inspired by the writings of French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, and by the experience of an encounter with the "Other". According to Levinas, the irreducible interaction, the experience of a face-to-face encounter with another, is a privileged phenomenon in which the other person's proximity and distance are strongly felt.


Interpreters & Collaborators:
Artist, Director, Script Writer & Interactive Developer | Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen (CA); Script Editor | Alex Bickel (US); Actors | Paula Blomqvist (SE), Samantha Hookway (US), Frank Sanderson (US/SE) ; Music | Hans Appelqvist (SE), Vera November (UK); Sound Engineers | Martin Johansson (SE), Nathalys Salas (SE)


© Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen