Soundbagism was created for the group exhibition “The Luggage Project” and was presented at Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado. The installation documents the acoustic journey of a suitcase through an airport – from check-in to take-off. A recorder and a microphone were repeatedly checked in as luggage with the suitcase. Interestingly, these electronic devices were never discovered by the security checks in the airports. Then Bernhard Gal developed a 40-minute composition from the resulting sound recordings; it is reproduced by two loudspeakers hidden in a small black suitcase. The recorded sounds of the suitcase are thus broadcast from a suitcase again at the end of the sound journey, in another airport and another country.
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soundbagism (2004)

Suitcase,black clothes, cd-player, active speakers
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'The Luggage Project' was censored by US (airport) politics!.........Read more...

Officials of Denver International Airport censored 'The Luggage Project' by removing 'inappropriate' art works after the opening of the exhibition!

Links:

http://www.plastic.com/comments.html;sid=04/08/03/05432411;cid=57

http://www.ncac.org/issues/luggageprojectletter.htm