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RE–FEST 2022

The End of the Day

Public Benches in NYC & LA
Ongoing at Sunset
Free

The End of the Day is a public audio installation by April Soetarman that can only be played at sunset. It is about a moment many years from now, when you are looking back and reflecting on a life well-lived.

If you would like a brief respite from the weight of the present...
This piece is not about what will happen tomorrow, or the next month, or even a year from today.
One day, many many years from now, you will be sitting on a porch, watching the sun set in the distance. It will be a perfect evening, and you will feel completely and utterly at peace.
In that moment, you will start to look back and reminisce about your life.

The End of the Day is a guided audio experience about the good moments in your life so far, and those that are yet to come. It is about reclaiming a good future, as a brave and hopeful act.

The installation consists of a series of engraved brass plaques installed on benches in public spaces, facing towards the sunset over the water. The instructions read, “The End of the Day / [a local phone number] / Make yourself comfortable. Call at sunset.”

Tone: quiet, contemplative, hopeful
Runtime: 10 mins
Map of locations and more instructions can be found here.

Created by April Soetarman
Sound design by Oliver Blank

Accessibility: The immersive audio experiences require a smartphone as well as use of audio and dialing or speech for activation. Each installation site is a public location physically accessible to mobility devices.

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April Soetarman (she/her) is an award-winning artist, designer, and writer who creates public art, immersive installations, games, and weird side projects. Her site-responsive works play with the language of everyday objects and speculative institutions to explore complex human emotions. Her works have been exhibited by museums and public spaces, as well as anonymously installed in cities across the country. AprilSoetarman.com / @AprilSoetarman / @WeirdSideProjects

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Image Description: Close up of the top and center of a blue wooden park bench in the warm glow of sunset. A light metal rectangular placard affixed to the bench with black serif text reads “The of the Day. 917- [phone number blurred out]. Make yourself comfortable. Call at sunset.” Long green and brown grass glistening in the sunlight is blurry in the background just beyond the bench, peeking through the bench’s wooden slats.