Rush Hour (at Dawson City METRO-Net Station)
sound installation 7min Dawson City, Yukon Sept. 14th, 2008
Reinald Nohal standing over the "grave" of Kippenberger's former METRO-Net station in Dawson City, Yukon. [Photo: C. Stankievech]
Syros, Greece	Dawson City, Canada	Kassel, Germany
Rush Hour continues the posthumous extension of METRO-Net—not only in the afterlife of Martin Kippernberger, but in the afterlife of the Dawson City Station. In September of 2008, Reinhald Nohal dismantled the station. In the month of its disassembly, I projected the sounds of metro stations from around the world out of the subterranean space: the Metro in Montreal, the Metro in Paris, the Subway in New York, and the Tube in London. All the recordings were made in the summer of 2008 and mixed into a soundscape that then seeped from the Dawson City site. The broadcast was recorded on September 14, and the resulting document includes both the sounds of underground trains traveling ‘though’ the Dawson City Station as well as the local overground traffic typical of Dawson City: trucks and ATVs speeding by on gravel roads. The mix of sounds articulates the strangeness and humour of the original project, eventually to be archived on the global network of the internet as the physcial project continues its Smithsonian entropy into the non-site.
Acknowledgements:
Reinald Nohal
Black & White photos from Model Martin Kippenberger: Utopia for Everyone, Kuntshaus Graz, 2007.