Having been to visit the turner prize, this video of Ian Sinclair talking about Susan Philipsz' work was interesting to watch. I personally, found Philipsz' work to be less exciting than I had expected, the room in The Tate Turner Prize exhibit I thought was a bit barren and lacking emotion. But perhaps this was the intention - as Sinclair discusses - how the urban space influences the impact of her voice and how it connects to what she is singing about and the history she explores.
The singular voice with the echoing acoustics of both the recordings and the surroundings she chooses makes her work much more eerie and as Ian Sinclair discusses, creates a clear undertone of Life Vs Death, plus a feeling of emptiness and evoking ghost like memories of Medieval London.
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