Publikumsgespräch

sound and light installation. Created during a three month residency at Berlin’s ZK/U, Center for Art and Urbanistics, for “Extended OPENHAUS - Berlin Art Week" 2017”.

Sited in one of Berlin’s railway depots used before and during WWII, this installation was commissioned for “Berlin Art Week” by ZK/U, the contemporary cultural hub that now occupies this historic space.  Dispelling the ghosts of its past usages while nodding to its repurposed present identity, the multi-track audio score created for this piece featured the voices of “absent” art-viewers responding to an objectless art work, heard gently emanating from six suspended speakers hung above an illuminated square demarcated by black-and-yellow striped tape. Centered on the cobblestoned floor in the basement, this sound installation layered a variety of enacted conversations bits, ranging from adult art-speak to childish murmurings, merging the serious and the playful, fact and fantasy, past and present. Designed to highlight the interface between individual opinions and shared circumstances, and the pretexts and pleasures of art-viewing experiences, it invited visitors to rethink the notion of Public Discussion evoked in the title.