We performed the first public work from our What if everything we know wrong? project, under the chandeliers and crystal wall lights of Brown University’s Alumnae Hall, where we tried to reconstruct somewhere else – somewhere specific that we know, and have been trying to unpick. From a bag containing thirty pocket dictaphones, three polaroids and a piece of chalk, we built a meeting place under the title:
NATURAL IS HOW YOU FOUND THINGS WHEN YOU CHECKED-IN
This line was taken from a lecture by the late Buckminster Fuller – for a crowd gathered within the otherwise cleared room. The polaroids imperfectly detailed two chairs and a radio. The chalk simply allowed Mike to locate those objects at scale. The dictaphones carried fragments and details of captured sound, and one archive recording from Buckminster Fuller’s epic forty-two hour lecture – recorded over two weeks of January 1975 – which he called Everything I know.
Photos by Mike Brookes