In the first episode of the Mundane Appreciation Radio Show series, airing on Brighton’s Radio Reverb 97.2 fm, you can hear a collection of provoking features designed to invite listeners to consider their own thoughts about food. Tune in to hear a local flim maker discuss the art and science of dipping, or listen to a man try to guess the correct sound of an onion being chopped.

Clips from The Mundane Appreciation Radio Show – Food Episode

Mundane Appreciation (Kayla Bell and Claudia Figueiredo) teamed up with Felicity Ford and focused on the sonic aspects of everyday life combining radio broadcast, installation, book-making, audience participation and performance. The show was broadcast on Radio Reverb 97.2fm and aimed to draw listeners into an entertaining exploration of ordinary audio ranging from unusual news and traffic reports to games like ‘The Sounds of Your Life’.

Commissioned by The Sonic Arts Network for the Sonic Arts Expo, Brighton, July 2008.

Clips from The Fantastical Reality Radio Show

Jingles from The Fantastical Reality Radio Show
Written and recorded by Kayla Bell, Alan Grice, Adam Casciaro, Matthew Twaites, Adam Kidd and Adam Bell.

Mundane Appreciation Week is a 7-day project combining installation, performance, audio and audience participation. Mundane Appreciation sets up a display stand and activity centre in different locations, to explore and celebrate everyday life. Visitors are invited to discuss their everyday methodology with on-site representatives and take part in a number of activities such as writing to-do lists, transcribing telephone messages, peeling vegetables, changing electrical plugs, folding clothes, organising clutter, and filling in questionnaires.

As part of the exhibition, a comical audio installation was installed in the toilet facilities where members of the public were heard speaking about day-to-day life including how they change their bedsheets, go round the supermarket, and dry their laundry.

Mundane Appreciation Week, Mum, Dad, I’m An Artist! Oxford Brookes Fine Art Degree Show, Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2007.

Mundane Appreciation Week Two, The Affordable Art Fair: Autumn Collection, Battersea Park, London, October 2007.

Audio Installation Clip

Audio Installation Full

Mundane Appreciation is not interested in your occupation or religious views, we just want to know about the kitchen cupboard you never use and exactly how you change your duvet cover.

Please download the PDF and send your completed questionnaire to Mundane Appreciation, 13 Selbourne Road, Hove, BN3 3AJ.

We look forward to seeing the results!

The Mundane Appreciation Household Questionnaire 2011

I Go To The Supermarket from Mundane Appreciation on Vimeo.

The animation was secretly placed in and amongst supermarket shelves and shopper’s trolleys.

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