The Grove is an interactive installation at Arcadia University's Gallery. Designed by L.A. Based artist Sean Duffy, the gallery has been transformed into a jungle of speakers and turntables. 18 variable speed turntables are spread through out the gallery with a crate of old records in front of each turntable. The sealing is an tangled web of audio cables and painted speakers of various sizes and shapes. The wires all tower up from each turntable forming pillars of wires. Visitors to the gallery are able to play whatever records they want at whatever speed they chose. The experience reminded me of my own thought processes thinking about music, jumping around the room and mixing different genres. The collection of records is quite eclectic. When I first entered the gallery a recording of Christmas songs was playing, then i added a record of VooDoo chants, and later added Mayan Drum Circles to the mix, We also added on some spoken word/ comedy albums. There was a performance done on December 6th at the exibit, and there is another one scheduled for December 13th at 7p.m. featuring DJ Thomas Devaney:
"Thomas Devaney is the author of A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007) and The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee, 1999). In the spring of 2007 he presented "No Silence Here, Enjoy the Silence," at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia) for its exhibition "Locally Localized Gravity", and in 2004 he led "The Empty House" tour at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site for "The Big Nothing." Devaney reviews poetry for The Philadelphia Inquirer and is a Senior Writing Fellow in the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Riffing on The Grove's fetishistic application of speakers and use of LPs as cultural conduits for personal experience, Devaney's response to the installation, entitled "Sympathy for the Devil," explores a pivotal moment from his Irish-Catholic adolescence in Northeast Philadelphia."
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