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🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Mark Burman follows artist Marcin Dudek as he works on his sound sculpture The Ground Harbours The Soul, which is made from the sounds of the crowd at Tottenham Hotspur stadium. Visitors get to experience all the highs and lows of fans watching a football game in real time.
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0:00.0 | I'm Marks for a scene. |
0:04.1 | Next is the first night of Europe and effects to it. |
0:07.2 | It's the world of most look forward to. |
0:09.3 | And it's the monster come to what to watch. |
0:12.2 | I'm Mark Berman. |
0:12.4 | Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service. |
0:24.6 | How do you take the madness of the crowd and turn it into art? |
0:32.6 | Stadiums are still lives, not really activated by anything, and suddenly there's this human fact that the crowd becomes the hammer, |
0:36.6 | becomes the hand of the maker, and suddenly there's this acoustic coming that the crowd becomes the hammer becomes the hand of the maker. |
0:38.9 | And suddenly there's this acoustic coming out and all this orchestra of materials. |
0:47.7 | I was always fascinated with the moment of losing control or losing, you know, like your power of your body. |
0:53.2 | You're not anymore like in your skin, you know, just something power of your body. You're not anymore like |
0:54.1 | in your skin, you know, just something carry you, like, I don't know, a wave or something |
0:58.5 | that just push you above the crowd. |
1:01.8 | Martin Dudek draws on his experience as an ultra, a football hooligan in post-communist |
1:06.9 | Poland to make ever more challenging artworks. This moment left a incredible mark on the way I work as art. |
1:14.4 | This is something that was shaped inside the crowd on the terrace. |
1:19.2 | Now, he wants to combine both sound and sculpture |
1:22.0 | to explore the quadrant of the stadium past and present. |
1:27.6 | But there's still, you know, |
1:28.8 | relation between art and sport |
1:30.7 | is still in kind of avant-garde |
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