Condensation

2022

Ceramic pipes arranged in the corner of a room

A memory, which con­sol­id­ates the sonic envir­on­ment with the archi­tec­tural rem­nants of a pump­ing sta­tion, not expli­citly, rather hazily and in the peri­phery. A myth, which depicts a fra­gile rela­tion­ship and a power struggle. Pipes are made to carry water once again, but no longer phys­ic­ally, rather as a his­tory which res­on­ates in the mater­ial itself.

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.

Exhibited in

Waving

Kunstverein für den Rhein-Sieg-Kreis e.V., Siegburg 30.1 – 18.3.2022 Opening 29.1.2022, 16:00

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.

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