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Utilizing sound as an integral component of architecture, Jude Tallichet infuses iconic and simplified architectural forms with music and sounds to invoke vague memories associated with the structures. Tallichet takes familiar architecture, such as common mid-western buildings from her childhood memories or the Empire State Building, and recreates the forms into ghostly and minimal models.
Tallichet continues her investigation of architecture and history at MetroTech. Tallichet, who lives in Brooklyn, is intrigued by the mythologies surrounding the moving of the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and the destruction of Ebbets Field in 1960.
Tallichet recreates the right field side of the stadium section of Ebbets Field for the lobby of MetroTech 1. The seven foot high, eighteen foot long stadium section is made from acrylic plastic and sandblasted a ghostly white. On the inside of the wall, stadium seating is visible, while a scaled-down scoreboard further evokes the stadium's aura. For this nostalgic installation Tallichet incorporates a montage of ambient sounds from a baseball game, songs from the former Brooklyn Dodgers Symphony, and other related musical elements. These sounds play softly three times a day, bringing Brooklynites back to the good old days when the Dodgers were kings.
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