Waving

30.1 – 18.3.2022

The text 'WAVING' in white on a blue background with ripples running through it like water.

Nine students of the KHM seminar "in situ_in between" (Prof. Frauke Eckhardt) occupy the former pump station of the Kunstverein Rhein-Sieg-Kreis with interactive sound installations, site-specific sound sculptures, and an audio walk.

In intensive engagement with the medium of sound and the existing soundscape, everyday, social, historical, and architectural aspects of the Kunstverein were artistically explored and aesthetically condensed in heterogeneous focal points.

The presented audiovisual works open up possibilities for sensory exploration of the space and reflection on one's individual position, translating temporal traces into extended contexts of meaning, interpreting and staging the real space through fiction, or exploring aspects of the physicality of architecture.

The exhibition WAVING invites, with a wave, to discover the sounds of the former pump station and perhaps to rediscover one's own way of listening.

Ceramic pipes arranged in the corner of a room. Four of the pipes have small black electronic devices attached with thin wires running from them. The view of the pipe arrangement seen from the hallway leading to the room. A closeup of an audio exciter attached to a ceramic pipe with wires running from it. A closeup of a couple of pipes lined up with audio exciters attached. An overhead view of the arrangement of ceramic pipes, showing the wires running into a small electronic device on the floor. A closeup of the open top of one of the pipes.