PULSING invited the local community to type in a civil rights chant, a lyric from a protest song or a verse from a poem of resistance or any other calls for action that they are empowered by. These verses are translated in real time into a Morse Code light pulsing from the front, harbor facing window of the Röda Sten Konsthall. The works asks the local community what is urgent to say right now.
Examples of chants that were submitted: 'art is not a mirror art is a hammer', 'BOLIVIA DIJO NO/Bolivia said no', 'respect democracy and people’s votes', 'ingen racister i vores gader/no racism in our streets', 'Instead of prohibiting drugs, help us improve reality', 'Jämställdhet/Gender equality', 'krossakapitalismen!/crush capitalism'.
Visit the tumblr for PULSING (Gothenburg) to see how it worked: https://pulsingingothenburg.tumblr.com
Copyright MC Coble, 2009