Last Scene
2004
CD, 1 hour loop
Installation view of “Last Scene”, 2003
“In Last Scene,”Patrick Ward constructs a sound collage of voices cut from film soundtracks. Disembodied and detached from their context, these voices nevertheless retain and convey the anxiety of their on-screen origins. Relocated and reassembled in a seemingly indeterminate and purgatorial space, the “found” voices are heard calling out the names of lost companions. Some of the voices seem roused by a sense of the presence or proximity of others; some are more distant and speculative. In all cases, these ill-fated calls have become trapped in a space of that no longer facilitates conversation.”
From Telephone press release, October 2008