Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark

Out-of-Sync, a collaboration between Australian artists Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark, has been producing radio works, websites, and installations for over ten years. The Museum of Rumour, 2003, is both an internet work and a site specific installation originally installed at Callan Park, which had once been an insane asylum and is now Sydney College of the Arts. The website uses Gertrude Stein as a node for a network of associations in six frames, each with diverse “rumours,” including Tourneur’s Cat People film and Our Lady of Coogee, an apparition of the Virgin Mary on a beach in Sydney, Australia, where you can hear people saying “I saw her on Thursday” or “its unexplainable.” The site engages nineteenth century writer Alfred Jarry’s notion of pataphysics: "The science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments.” The Museum of Rumour plumbs the terrain of analogy to reveal our mind’s desire to intuitively connect images, experiences, sounds, and information across known and unknown to create maps of understanding across difference and invisibility.

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