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<artist>
  <created-at type="datetime">2008-07-17T19:52:24+02:00</created-at>
  <id type="integer">374</id>
  <name>Graham Harwood, Richard Wright and Matsuko Yokokoji
</name>
  <origin>Graham Harwood, 1960, Brighton, UK; Richard Wright, 1963, London, UK; Matsuko Yokokoji, 1960, Yokohama City, JP 
Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji live in Southend-on-Sea, UK
Richard Wright lives in London, UK
</origin>
  <text-de>Die Arbeit wurde aus einer alten elektromechanischen Strowger-Vermittlungsstelle hergestellt, die in &#220;berresten der Alumix-Fabrik gefunden wurde. Die Schalter werden wiederbelebt, indem den Telefonanrufen von _Telephone Trottoire_ &#8211; einem sozialen Telefonnetz, das die K&#252;nstler in Zusammenarbeit mit dem kongolesischen Radioprogramm Nostalgie Ya Mboka in London realisierten &#8211; nachgesp&#252;rt wird. Die pr&#228;zis ausbalancierten Bewegungen und Laute der Schalter erzeugen eine greifbare Pr&#228;senz f&#252;r dieses sonst unangreifbare Netzwerk kursierender Gespr&#228;che; sie verweben die Doppeldeutigkeiten der Globalisierung, transnationale Migration und die Auswirkungen unseres Bed&#252;rfnisses nach best&#228;ndiger Kommunikation&amp;nbsp;miteinander.

Die Zusammenarbeit der K&#252;nstler Graham Harwood, Richard Wright und Matsuko Yokokoji begann im Jahr 2004, als sie Teil des international anerkannten K&#252;nstlerkollektivs Mongrel waren. In ihren Arbeiten fusionieren sie Kunst, elektronische Medien und Stra&#223;enkultur. So versuchen sie, &#252;ber die Hierarchien von Macht und Wissen hinaus zu blicken und Menschen mit einzubeziehen, die f&#252;r gew&#246;hnlich von den M&#246;glichkeiten, sich einzubringen und ihren Anliegen Ausdruck zu verleihen, ausgeschlossen sind.
</text-de>
  <text-en>_Tantalum Memorial &#8211; Residue_ is a telephony-based memorial to the people who have died as a result of the &#8220;coltan wars&#8221; in the Congo. Coltan is mined for the metal tantalum &#8211; an essential component of mobile phones that is now more valuable than gold. 

This work is constructed out of an old electro-mechanical Strowger telephone exchange, discovered amongst the remains of the Alumix factory. The switches are reanimated by tracking the phone calls from _Telephone Trottoire_ &#8211; a social telephony network designed by the artists in collaboration with the Congolese radio program _Nostalgie Ya Mboka_ in London. The precisely poised movements and sounds of the switches create a concrete presence for this otherwise intangible network of circulating conversations, weaving together the ambiguities of globalization, transnational&amp;nbsp;migration and the impact of our addiction to constant communication.

The artists Graham Harwood, Richard Wright, and Matsuko Yokokoji, have worked together since 2004, firstly as part of Mongrel, an internationally recognized artist collective. Working in a fusion of art, electronic media and street culture, they try to reach beyond the hierarchies of power and knowledge to involve those normally excluded from expression and collaboration. 
</text-en>
  <text-it>_Tantalum Memorial &#8211; Residue_ &#233; un memoriale in forma telefonica in ricordo di coloro che sono morti in seguito alle &#8220;guerre per il coltan&#8221; in Congo. Il coltan viene estratto perch&#233; contiene la tantalite, un componente essenziale per la telefonia mobile e oggi pi&#249; prezioso dell&#8217;oro.

Quest&#8217;opera &#233; stata realizzata a partire da un vecchio commutatore telefonico elettromeccanico Strowger, scoperto tra i resti dell&#8217;Alumix. Gli interruttori vengono riattivati per rintracciare le telefonate dal _Telephone Trottoire_ , una rete telefonica sociale ideata dagli artisti in collaborazione con il programma radiofonico congolese _Nostalgie Ya Mboka_ di Londra. I movimenti e i suoni dei commutatori bilanciati con precisione, creano una presenza concreta per questa rete di conversazioni in transito, altrimenti invisibile, mescolando le ambiguit&#224; della globalizzazione, la migrazione transnazionale e l&#8217;impatto della nostra dipendenza da una comunicazione costante.

Gli artisti, Graham Harwood, Richard Wright e Matsko Yokokoji lavorano insieme dal 2004, in primo luogo come membri di Mongrel, un collettivo di artisti riconosciuti a livello internazionale. Fondendo diversi aspetti di arte, tecniche multimediali e street art, _cercano_ di andare al di l&#224; delle gerarchie del potere e della cultura per coinvolgere coloro a cui &#233; preclusa la possibilit&#224; di esprimersi e di collaborare.
</text-it>
  <title-of-work>Tantalum Memorial &#8211; Residue, 2008
1938 telephone exchange connected to social telephony network
</title-of-work>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2008-07-17T19:52:24+02:00</updated-at>
</artist>
