JANET CARDIFF
The Missing Voice (Case Study B)

17 June 1999 – present
Whitechapel, London E1

Part urban guide, part fiction, part film noir, Janet Cardiff’s audio walk entwines you in a narrative that shifts through time and space. Intimate, even conspiratorial, Cardiff has created a psychologically absorbing experience – for an audience of one at a time.

You are given a recording of The Missing Voice. You leave the building and find yourself transported in time. What was that sound? Who is speaking to you? Where does reality end, and what’s imagined begin…?

For her British debut, Janet Cardiff made an extraordinary soundtrack for London’s inner city. The work lasts some 50 minutes, tracing a route through Spitalfields and towards the City of London. The threads of The Missing Voice (Case Study B) are brought to some kind of resolution in a space off Commercial Street.

Please contact the Whitechapel gallery on Tel: +44 (0)20 7522 7888 for more details about the walk.