Vocal Site Report by Mollin+Voegelin

The work engages the site at the intersections and interactions with its external environment as it is delineated by the walls that circumnavigate it.
It materialises through a forensics of the invisible as an aural delineation of the site and attempts to make visible the building’s skin as a surface of ideological, social and physical interaction. The repeated tapping upon the outside walls, windows, grates, and drain pipes, is replayed within the space as the sound of a patient and tentative exploration of the material of the building and as a search for an access point to the interior environment where the work is playing.
These recordings and re-stagings of the exploratory sounds produced and heard while circumnavigating the site, meet the narrative of the security guard who has worked in the building both when it was uninhabited and now, years later, that it is an arts centre. His voice produces a report of the site from his walks within the space, looking after the building’s security in its own passing of time.
This lived experience joins projected transcriptions and fabulations deriving from the initial exploratory walks around the building that attempt to expand upon the invisible and formless parameters defined through the space’s sounding and vocalisation - an ‘approchement’ and approximation through the sensory-motor action of walking, listening, hearing and speaking.

Vocal Site Report includes an interview with Tabacalera’s security guard Miguel Sánchez López, the interpreter is Gabriela Diaz