Audio contributions:

Christina Battle: 
I remember breathing it all in deeply.

Michelle Campos Castillo:
Going north meant more.

Adán de la garza:
The last few stops of our meandering.

Masimba Hwati:
The dust is beginning to rise again.

Ruth Jenrbekova:
To refer to the practice of
going b(u)y or buying.

Serena Lee: 
You thought you'd ordered lai cha,
but they gave you lemon ice tea instead.

Michael Madjus:
So it was really weird when they did that,
when they banned the people.

Super early in the morning.

Taking my breaks by myself.

We'll meet you at the HMV on the second floor where we'll be signing autographs.

The Eaton Centre is built like the Titanic.

Riaz Mehmood:
Two recordings: a walk through West Edmonton Mall and the Quetta (Pakistan) main bazar panning from left to right every five seconds.

Patricia Ritacca:
(because who didn't want to smell
like fresh cut grass in the 90s?)

Juli Saragosa:
To the left, it used to be an ice cream shop.
Now it's all boarded up.

School of Temporalities:
When is the mall?
Excuse me, what time are you?

What is the average speed of a shopping bag? And when are the plants watered...?

Eg. in the parking garage, in different shops
or collected by the security.
Where do they go and how long do they remain where, guarded by whom?

WHEREELSEELSEWHERE


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About the project: Over the years, our conversations somehow loop back to super-malls and Star Trek: Deep Space 9, which takes place on a space station at the edge of a wormhole. Navigating the Hydro Corridor, we began thinking about the corridor-ness of the mall as a promise of community space, how it echoes the arcades as a fantasy of European cosmopolitanism and consumerism, and the ways in which they’ve been part of youth culture,familiar to us both, maybe you too!

In lieu of an object-based presence in the Hydro Corridor, we created an audio-tour to accompany you, taking a kaleidoscopic approach to ruminating on the mall-ness of wormholes, and the wormhole as mall. During the period of living in contained, isolated distances, we reached out to others – friends and family in various geographies – inviting them to send us audio notes about ‘mall-ness’ in the form of: stories, haptic or embodied sensations, memories, tastes, smells, activities, goods, and relations.

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