Do(n't) 

Victoria Square, Hull, UK, 2005

John Wynne

                   

 

Do(n't) began as an interactive installation for the European Group for Organizational Studies at their conference in Barcelona.  It later became a set of text/sound pieces for Ephemera, the online Journal of Organisational Studies.

 

 

In 2005, as part of the Humber Mouth Literary Festival, Hull Art Lab chose the 3 text/sound pieces which constitute Do(n't) to play at half-hour intervals on the BBC's controversial Big Screen in the centre of the city of Hull.  The BBC flatly refused to allow "Orange Alert" to be screened.  They also said that the 30-second silence with a blank white screen added to the end of "Auditory Warnings" specifically for this location had to be edited out because people would think the screen was malfunctioning.  "Confidential report by an airline pilot" was allowed without edits. 

All 3 pieces can be seen/heard here.