CHARLOTTA RUTH
HÖRSELGÅNG
The title Hörselgång metaphorically hints at a speculative channel that allows one to listen to, and through, somebody else’s ears. In the Swedish language, gång stands for English “channel”, but also “walkway” or “path”. “Hörsel” means hearing.
In the Sitespecific instructions and choreographic clues combined with binaural synthesis and enhanced listening practices, interfere with thesubjective situatedness of auditory perception, inviting theparticipants to be "in-between”. The walk puts differentmodels of perception at play, allowing forms of coexistence, not inand not outside of this world.
A semi-automated system was generated for systematising the thoughts/objects/data/ that was generated or collected by the visitors. An “everything is already here machine” that was fed by the thoughts and group intelligence of the participants. Towards the end, the participants gained insights about the back-end and where given an individual report and dream prescription. Dramaturgically it however remained ambiguous wether the QUESTIONOLOGY programme also collected data for other than individual purposes.
Concept, environment: Cordula Daus and Charlotta Ruth
Programming, sound: Simon Repp
Almost Doctors: Waltraud Brauner, Cordula Daus, [M] Dudeck, Gilbert Grünbühel,
Imani Rameses, Charlotta Ruth, Simon Repp
Architecture: Hinnerk Utermann
Object design: Susanne Song-Yi Griem, Sofia Romberg
Logo: Vasilis Marmatakis
Graphic design: Maiko Sakurai Karner
Collaboration sound installation: Thomas Grill, Till Bovermann, Almut Schilling
(Rotting sounds, FWF AR445)
Installation office: Margarete Jahrmann
Production: Dominik Grünbühel
Technical support: Felipe Duque
A co-production by Flat-Corner Kunstverein, Zentrum Fokus Forschung,
University of Applied Arts Vienna, brut Wien, MDT Stockholm, with the
kind support of Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien and Federal Ministery Republic of Austria Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport. Thanks to Sebastian Bark, Cornelia Bast, Philipp Ehmann and Steffi Hofer.
