“Did you know that there is a direct correlation between the resurgence in popularity of the music of acclaimed Irish singer Mary Black, and the increased visibility of ideas concerning the flat earth, and other non-spherical earth paradigms? Think about it! Take the lyrics of her 1989 hit No Frontiers. The symbolism is unmistakable. Can you imagine the world being a different shape?  Why is the world the way it is now, and not some other way?  History is not inevitable.  Why is the earth not a cube? You don’t know!”

When encountering this artwork, you are encouraged to use it as an opportunity to sing. Karaoke and singing in public inspires a particular form of anxiety spanning multiple cultural concerns. It can also offer a distinct form of social pleasure. It looks to provide a platform to empower more emotive, gestural forms of articulation, and promote an active listening, while reigniting an alienated public sphere. It foregrounds the process-oriented value of amateur performance. Karaoke’s promise rests in its affordance of a platform “to have a voice and be heard. To delight yourself and thereby delight others. To make a song your own and dispense it as a gift."

A community emerges as it listens.