If You’d Like To….

An Interactive Audio Installation

‘If you’d like to….’ is an audio installation to be enjoyed by people of all ages. Its strong adaptive potentials allow it to survive diverse habitats and climates. Anna Keleher and Claire Coté have playfully devised an invitation that allows empathetic leaps into parallel universes, glimpses into imagined worlds. Based on the familiar phone options format this fun, participatory site-specific piece is set to flex, stretch, and re-jig patterns of thought and culture into new and surprising constellations for the 21st Century.

Part pet, part machine, this hybrid installation came to life in a 15th Century townhouse on the edge of Dartmoor England, while its clone was born in the contrasting location of a Northern New Mexico wooden toyshop. The twin hybrids live distinct existences on parallel continents, adventuring out from their home places to guide companions through urban and rural wildernesses, challenging habitual perceptions and enabling unique engagements with the places in which they live, work or play.

Interacting with local residents, tourists, park rangers and construction workers in city plazas, National Parks, forest trails and galleries in England, Colorado and now New Mexico, this perambulatory audio installation invites people to share, explore and imagine dimensions of other worlds.

Haldon: If You’d Like to….

Installed at the Center for Contemporary Art in the Natural World, Haldon Forest, Devon, England, April 2008

Torbay Geopark: If You’d Like to….

Installed at Cockington Court, Torquay, Devon England, May – July, 2008

Dartmoor: If you’d Like to….

Bellever Youth Hostel, Dartmoor National Park, Devon England, Sept. – Nov., 2008

Bristol: If You’d Like to….

Installed at Arnolfini Bookshop, Bristol, England, October 1 – 6, 2008 and out for a stroll on the streets of Bristol

If You’s Like To….Great Sand Dunes

Installed at the Visitors Center, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Mosca, Colorado, July – December, 2010