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The Naughty Apartment

Nigel Helyer

An interactive sound-sculpture inspired by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita". Much of the action in the book unfolds within the writer's own apartment - the infamous apartment No.50 of 302-bis Sadovaya Street. "It is an exploration of architectural space in the realm of fiction and fiction within architectural space!

The work consists of 8 miniature rooms enclosed in a clear acrylic frame. The visitor is asked to wear a set of headphones and carry a magnifying glass. Drawing the magnifying glass
near the room induces an audio narrative in the headphones. Each of the eight rooms spread before the visitor contain a vital scene from the novelwith the dramatic events elaborated by an audio narrative, written in the very same apartment building ~ perhaps as Bulgakov would have it, in the 5th Dimension!

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From The Naughty Apartment, via d'archive
From The Naughty Apartment, via d'archive – via d/Archive 
From The Naughty Apartment, via d'archive
From The Naughty Apartment, via d'archive – via d/Archive