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Temporary sound installation by Julianne Swartz, How Deep is Your (PVC and plastic tubing, plexiglass, funnel, paint, LED lights, record player, mirror and 2-channel soundtrack, 2012; Installation view, deCordova Museum). The image illustrates a key longstanding body of work by Julianne Swartz beginning in the early 2000s, when she began producing multi-sensory, site-specific sonic installations using low-tech means such as PVC tube to pipe sound throughout exhibition spaces. In this work—first created at MoMA PS1 in 2003 and here recreated at the deCordova Museum in 2012—she connected speakers in the spaces' basements through meandering tubes to a large blue amplifying funnel that emitted a faint overlay of the songs "How Deep Is Your Love" (the Bee Gees) and "Love" (John Lennon. This body of work and individual work were publicly exhibited through prominent commissions and exhibitions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Julianne Swartz. Copyright held by the artist.

Julianne Swartz

Installation view

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work by Julianne Swartz beginning in the early 2000s, when she broadened her interests in sensory, site-specific installations to include effects engaging sound and emotional memory. Her sound works have used low-tech and more sophisticated means to disperse music, recorded messages and ambient sound through large, multi-floor and multi-location sites, crossing dimensions of space and time to generate unexpected, ephemeral and participatory experiences out of common situations. Critics suggest that her work inhabits liminal areas, both literally (transitory architectural spaces and functional systems) and conceptually, bridging the perceptible and evanescent, public and private, visual and embodied, affective and technical. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key, foundational and ongoing body of work, which brought Swartz initial and continuing recognition through major commissions, exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Swartz's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Julianne Swartz, and the work is no longer viewable in this form, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.