[installation views at Art residency/festival „Begehungen“, Spinnerei Chemnitz, 2015]
2015/16
with Julia Boswank
as for the sound installation -
2 speakers
2 big buttons
1 arduino
150 sound files (about 3 hours)
set-up for further engagement and take-away
with the voices of inhabitants and tourists of Chemnitz
as for the radio/audio play -
duration 22:13 min
published by Hörspielsommer Leipzig
“14. Internationales Hörspielfestival”
(ISBN 978-3-86847-194-6, CD)
The situation is an open one, temporary and sensual, not prescribing the decision of how to react to it.
The foreign and unknown, its arrival, integration and curious questioning is currently excessively negotiated - especially in the online commentary sections of the national press. Here you find a mingle-mangle of creative insults, beautiful descriptions, sarcasm and autistic statements and therefore a textual base for the project itself.
The commentaries are being read out, spoken, re-enacted, recorded via simply inquiring people in the public space. The text then becomes subject to new comments and finally replayable through buzzers installed in the mentioned urban niches.
Concerning the audio pieces as being used within the sound installation at the art festival “Begehungen” in Chemnitz as well as for the radio play as published by Hörspielfestival Leipzig, the artists Julia and Dina Boswank confronted transcriptions of the comments as being read out and critically engaged in, with their own memories of the interview’s circumstances and surroundings.
[installation views at Art residency/festival „Begehungen“ at Spinnerei Chemnitz, 2015]
[installation views at art residency/festival „Begehungen“ at Spinnerei Chemnitz, 2015 //
presented and published through Hörspielsommer Leipzig, 2016 //
presentation at Geräuschkulisse Leipzig, 2017 and Hörspielfestival Wittenberg, 2017]
[excerpt of a script for the radio play]